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Our Vision: The great American experiment to this day has been a question of a peoples capacity to self govern, thus maintaining individual freedoms. When the balance of power between those governed and those given consent to govern becomes imbalanced, liberty and prosperity suffer. We desire that the essential balance of power, having been tipped to the side of those governing, would be restored to it’s optimal condition.

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Our Mission: In all of human history it is found that freedom is the exception, not the norm. The pillars of the American experiment and of the resultant liberty have been a civically moral, educated, and active people. Our mission is to encourage one another, our families, and our communities in these pursuits, thus reasserting civic ownership of our cities, state, and nation.

Our Focus:

	*Education:* There has likely been no one singular piece of American social being which has received as great a distortion than that of education. Education and its public recognition today has become stripped to forms of vocational training, information dissemination, and the indoctrination of students by special interests driving public policy. These conceptions of education are not only incorrect but fundamentally damaging to the precepts of a free society. Through history education has meant something wholly different than it does today; it meant to work towards the perfection of the human essence. From the teachings of Plato to that of Christ and, at least in America, up to the early Twentieth Century education meant to strive towards that perfection. While the means and ends were debated across various cultures and times, the fundamental idea remained intact.
	*Statesmanship:* The product of education was statesmanship. Whereas today, formal education at best imparts “knowledge” and “Skills”, education of the past gave individual agency which when viewed from the social lens was termed statesmanship. Statesmanship is the culmination of private and public virtues, character formation, wisdom of self, of family, of state, recognition and deference to Providence, and a litany of other vital components which forge men into humanity and drives the engine of free society.
	*Healing Our Communities:* The genius of the Founding Fathers was their culmination of political thought that produced the United States Constitution. If one traces our top 100 problems back to the constitution, it will be found that one of two conditions exists. We are either ignoring the Constitution or we are executing policy under amendments that have compromised the provisions for "Checks & Balances" or "Seperation of Powers". Our state constitutions were modeled after our federal Constitution and together they became the instruments for preserving moral laws. Our forefathers believed in the preservation of family and self-governance at the local level. If we are to heal our communities at the local level, we must also work at the state, national, and international levels and restore our Founders' Charter of Freedom.