About the Constitution Research

1. Mission

This website was founded in response to the growing concern that noncompliance with the Constitution for the United States of America and most state constitutions is creating a crisis of legitimacy that threatens freedom and civil rights. Although the focus here is on government in the United States, coverage also includes the rest of the world, and private as well as public organizations. We maintain that the principles of constitutional republicanism are universal, and applicable to all nations, although not well understood or upheld by most. We also examine the related principles of federalism and nomocracy, the rule of law, of nomology, the science of law, and show how those principles are applicable to solving the fundamental problem of avoiding excessive or unbalanced concentrations of power.

2. New content to add solicited

If you want to help us with scanning books to add to this library, we recommend the following tools:

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Please be advised that we cannot post books to this site that are newer than 75 years old, because they fall within the copyright protection window. For details on books that are outside the copyright window, see:

  1. U.S. Copyright History 1923-1964
  2. Stanford Copyright Renewals Database

3. Websites containing higher quality versions of some of the constitutional and legal content posted herein

  1. Library of Economics and Liberty
  2. Online Library of Liberty Project

4. Origin of some content posted on this site

This page, and all subpages not in the public domain or copyrighted by others, are Copyright © 2022 (and beyond) Constitution Research. Permission is hereby granted to copy with attribution for noncommercial purposes. Visitors are encouraged to download all files so that they can recreate this site or any part of it should it go down for any reason. Click here for a place to download the entire site

The content on this new site is an much expanded and improved version of the the Constitution.org site. This is because the Constitution Society does not have the revenue or the expertise to keep the original site updated or the energy or time to keep it updated. The following changes were made.

  1. Copyrighted materials produced personally by Jon Roland have been removed. The only thing that remains on the site is public domain content outside the 75 year copyright window or not copyrighted by the original author. The original site was mostly lists of third party content and such lists cannot be copyrighted.
  2. Dead links are removed.
  3. New links have been added to relevant new third party sites and content.
  4. The site features much more spiritual and religious content, because Jon Roland was an atheist..
  5. Links to the content on famguardian.org and sedm.org have been added to relevant pages. The original site ironically had not such links, perhaps because Jon shunned spiritual subjects as an atheist. This is truly ironic because Jon chose the author of this site as his successor and webmaster and trustee of the Constitution Society.
  6. Unlike Constitution Society, this site is entirely FREE and derives not advertising revenues or even donations from its community. The lack of a commercial motive lends it more credibility.
  7. The opening page changed to more finely focus the purpose of the site to make it clearer.
  8. Added more focus to the methods of deception used to introduce and protect violations of the Constitution.
  9. The navigation system is much improved.

The author of this site offered to do all the above for the Constitution Society for free provided he was not micromanaged in doing so to prevent, but the idea was not implemented and the board had no interest or desire to do so. Out of concern that the original effort might die on the vine because of neglect, the author of this site took it upon himself to do the subject justice by making it:

  1. More current and up to date. The original site is largely static and paralyzed by parliamentary procedure that is inadequate to timely respond to a dynamic and growing audience.
  2. More relevant to the current needs and interests of a younger audience.
  3. More social in nature by adding social networking features, blogs, and forums.
  4. More focused than the original on exactly why and how the protections of the constitution are LAWFULLY waived in the view of the courts.
  5. Avoid any privileged status such as the privileged I.R.C. 501c8 status of the original site that might subject it to government financial scrutiny.
  6. Eschew methods of introducing franchises which destroy the protections of the constitution, such as Social Security, Medicare, and all government benefits and franchises. Jon Roland collected Social Security, which ironically caused him to surrender his rights and created Third Rail issues that affected his credibility..

It was the LACK of the above improvements to the original site that lead this site author to be interested in resurrecting the site when it went down after Jon Roland fell into health issues before his death. That effort to resurrect the site when it went down pro bono is how this site author was nominated as the webmaster by Jon after Jon was released from the hospital in the first place.

The navigation system is similar to the following pages and should be familiar to those using the Family Guardian site.

  1. Forms/Pubs page-Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry. Click here for a training video on how to use the page, which is similar to this page.
  2. Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004-Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry. Click here for a training video on how to use the page, which is similar to this page.
  3. Published Authors-Family Guardian Fellowship,

The new navigation system is meant to make it easy to browse a digital copy of the site from a CD, DVD, or thumb drive without running a program. This will ensure that the entire site can be uploaded periodically to Archive.org as a single ZIP file to preserve it after the webmaster dies to protect the MASSIVE effort Jon already invested in this site. He spent 23 years (and counting) developing this site. The webmaster has been his student and a user of the original site since about 1999. Our hats off to him for his discipline and persistence. We thanked him for his massive efforts and now we want to help pass the torch by making sure lots of people have a copy of the site.

On 6/17/2018, the creator of the Constitution Society site gave us his blessing to maintain portions of his site here as follows:

I have no objection to mirror sites, including yours. Some precautions are needed, but you seem to be taking them. This is just casual discussion. It is a good thing for there to be mirror sites provided they don't have a high page rank. We have others, and have had more in the past. It is important to preserve the content of this site.

Jon Roland

Please see our DMCA page.