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.
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We believe doing any of the above would compromise the objectivity of this site and any other site desiring to present a COMPLETE exposition of all the corruption and problems with the government and the legal profession documented here. We also believe that advertising would distract attention away for the important issues on this site and shrink the important audience of people interested in our content. We hate advertisements and censorship.
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The copyright protecting this site does not protect any of content listed under items 3 through 6 in the above list.
We gratefully acknowledge the significant contributions of Jon Roland and of Constitution.org to some of the above type of content posted on this site. The original publisher Jon Roland gave us his permission to share this content before his death, even though such permission was not legally necessary to our knowledge in order to post it here. We deliberately do not mention them elsewhere on this site as the source because we don't want to connect their name or credibility to the political views expressed in the content on this site that they are not the origin of.
The web master of this site did at one time donate his time and services as a trustee and a web master of the Constitution Society website since its founder died. That period lasted for about three years and began at the invitation of the founder, Jon Roland, after the founder was on his deathbed and the web master rescued the content of Constitution.org after it went down so that it would not be lost forever. He resigned as of August 18, 2023 out of:
For details on my resignation as former Web master and Trustee of Constitution.org, see:
The revenues of the society are limited to the point where they cannot afford to give their site the Tender Loving Care (TLC) that it deserves. And, even with people like us, the former web master on their staff, are so paralyzed by distrust, apathy, and micromanagement that they wouldn't even allow us to do it when we were on their staff and volunteered for free. Hence, we volunteer our time here to do things they aren't doing, whether because they can't afford it, choose not to, or because of indifference. Our favorite saying on this subject is:
"Even when you are on the right track, you will still get run over by the train if you just sit there."
In fairness, it is tempting to evade responsibility for the long term decline in their advertising revenue by blaming us for it while we were web master. This may form part of the reason we had to part ways. The fact of the matter is, however:
A business model like the Constitution Society designed around selling advertising using content that only 3% is original and owned by the Society seems doomed to fail. As such, a site like ours provides an important backup source when or if it does fail. If the Society trustees intend to fulfill their mandate from founder Jon Roland in their Bylaws to make sure their site content continues to be available and they at any point lose their financial ability to do so, our site is the only way we know of going forward to ensure that this primary goal of the Society can be satisfied in the absence of sufficient revenue or interested volunteer trustees or web masters. Thus, they would be violating their prime directive and the wishes of the Founder to try to censor, persecute, or take down this site or any part of this site through any kind of vexatious legal action which might compromise its financial ability to continue. The fact that we have a desire to even volunteer to help them as we are here and improve on what they are trying to do without compensation ought to be enough to earn their respect, if not blessing and admiration. Their intentions in this area are dubious and are what lead the web master of this site and their now former trustee to part ways.
Should the Constitution Society desire to post anything on this site on their site, they are encouraged to do so with proper attribution to us and a link to us within each item reposted and the original author notice remains intact. We do this as a way of thanking them for their contribution of the above type of content to this site and of saving them the time and expense of of having to pay someone to do the work they can get from us for free. However, any decision to do so shall constitute consent to waive the right to litigate against us for the content posted on this site.
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