Constitution

Constitution Fair – Saturday, 9/21

Anita Christy

Please attend the Constitution Fair tomorrow!  See Constitution Week USA for more information.  

Saturday, September 21st
6:00pm-9:00pm

Enjoy world-class entertainment by 2nd generation Osmond Family recording artist and American Idol contenstant, David Osmond, hailed as the best Osmond voice of our time!

Suggested donation is $5 per person, $15 per family.(Family must have at least one parent.)  Bring a blanket for the lawn, and get ready for a great evening!

Go to the RESOURCES PAGE to download the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, and many other Founding documents and information.  You can also download everything you need to teach your Family a lesson on the Constitution.  You can also order a video titled A More Perfect Union: America Becomes A Nation is the first comprehensive recreation of those stirring, heated debates during the sweltering summer of 1787. Filmed on location at Independence Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia, and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation and those underlying principles that guard our freedoms today.  

Check out all the booths!  Meet your elected representatives, candidates for the upcoming 2014 election, and many more. Here’s a terrific booth to visit:  The Center for Self Governance. 

 

 

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Center for Self Governance – Last chance for Level 1 Classes until 2014!

Anita Christy

The Center for Self Governance as had incredible growth and demand from around the state, and leaders will be holding 3 more Level 1 classes in Arizona before 2014.  Please note that the Sun City class is coming up very quickly and will be held in two parts:  Nov. 12 and 14.  Apologies for the late notice, but it took some time to confirm all the particulars. 

Did you know that Self-Governance graduates, working as Teams, have had a 100% success rate working at the local level?   They have had an 85% success rate at the state level, and 20% success rate at the federal level.  Check out this flyer. 

Here are the Level 1 classes:

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Center for Self-Governance: Upcoming Classes

Anita Christy

Levels 1, 2, 3, and 5 classes offered by the Center for Self Governance are coming up very soon throughout Arizona.   See below for dates, times, locations, cost, how to register, etc.  If you haven’t started these classes yet, please begin now. 

What’s so Special About these Classes?

Have you ever wondered why our local school districts don’t educate students on how to exercise their individual civic authority?  What is the difference between civic "duty" and civic "authority"?  Do the schools promote America’s founding as a republic, not a democracy, and why a republic is superior? 

Have you ever wondered why the media (newspapers, magazines, television, entertainment, etc.) denigrates conservatives, the TEA Party, and the Bill of Rights, etc?

Do you understand that both political parties preserve power, and do you know how they do it?  Do you know the true purpose of "political correctness" and how it is used to control the debate, divide and marginalize people, and silence the opposition?

Are you aware that most bureaucrats (town, city, county, state, federal, school, college) have been very well trained to "deal with you and shut you up"?  The professional politicians of both parties do the same.  Did you know that, until you learn how to self govern, you are no match for them and their well mastered techniques?

Here’s the battle in America at every level of our society:  Centralized Governance versus Self Governance.

Take the first class, and your eyes will open.  Once opened, you will learn how to graciously, professionally, slowly but surely, restore our Republic.

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Upcoming Center for Self Governance Classes!

Anita Christy

This is a reminder that the Level 2 Class will be held in PAYSON on Tuesday, March 4, from 9:00 am – 5:30 pm!  The meeting will take place at Tiny’s Restaurant, which is located at 600 Arizona Highway 260, Payson.  The cost is $60.  You can register HERE or at the door.  Be sure to bring your completed homework from Level 1.    

Level 2 – Communications in Self Governance

The Level 2 course is designed to teach argument framing, messaging, debate, and communications in strategic self-governance. Students will learn how to engage legislators, citizens, media, and opponents of self-governance. This course will give students the hands on experience needed to effectively communicate a self governance message.

Please check the Center for Self Governance website for Levels 1, 2, and 4 classes scheduled in other Arizona locations during March.  These classes teach American citizens how to exert their Civic Authority.  The voice and knowledgeable actions of just one of these citizens is worth more than 10 lobbyists! 

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Center for Self Governance: Upcoming Classes

Anita Christy

The coursework offered by the Center for Self Governance has become so popular across the state that Youth Pricing is now available.  There is a scholarship program for individuals age 18 and under.  

•    Only $15 for youth who attend with a parent or whose parent has already taken the class.

•    Only $20 for youth who attend on their own.

CSG training is recommended for ages 11 and up. Youth pricing applies to all levels of training.

If interested, please contact Mishelle at mperkins@tncsg.org prior to the class session. Please pay at the door via cash or check.

 CSG also has two half-scholarships for Level 1 available for students age 19-25 ($20 off tuition price of $40). These were offered by an Arizona student who wants to see more young people in the classes. If you are interested, please contact Arizona CSG at info@mrspowel.org.

Audits will remain $10 per session.

Self-governance is exercising individual liberty, personal responsibility, and civic authority for the control of instituted government.

Did you know that Self-Governance graduates, working as Teams, have had a 100% success rate working at the local level?   They have had an 85% success rate at the state level, and 20% success rate at the federal level.  Check out this flyer. 

Please click HERE for a full listing of all classes coming up in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Prescott Valley, Tucson, Heber, Scottsdale, Gilbert, and Flagstaff. 

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Defending Old Glory – AZ Sen. John Kavanagh Wants Stealing Flag To Be a Felony

Anita Christy

Arizona Republican Senator John Kavanagh (LD23) will be introducing a bill during the upcoming Legislative Session that will make stealing the American flag a Class 6 felony.  In the following Fox News interview, Sen. Kavanagh explains that currently, stealing the flag is only a misdemeanor theft, akin to stealing a pack of gum from a convenience store.  When someone steals a flag from someone’s yard, they aren’t just stealing something that doesn’t belong to them.  Not only is the flag a venerated object, but also, when someone displays the American flag, they are exercising their Constitutionally-guaranteed First Amendment freedom of expression. They might be displaying the flag to express patriotism, mourning someone’s death, or as a protest.  This is an important right.  

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Stop the National Popular Vote Compact in Arizona

Anita Christy

"Democracy" has a nice ring to it: One Person, One Vote.  However, that’s exactly what the Founders did not want: Majority (aka Mob) Rule.  When Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it."  Ours is a Constitutional Republic, but only if we, the people, care enough to participate in keeping it.     

Our presidents are chosen through a combination of a popular vote and the Electoral College that represents the states.  Each state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for Senators.  This keeps a handful of the most populous states from dominating all the other states.  For example, Donald Trump won the popular vote in Arizona.  Thus, the Republican party’s 11 Electors will vote for president.  Had Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, Arizona’s 11 Democrat Electors would be voting for president. (In contrast, California has 55 Electors.) See below for two short videos:  Do you Understand the Electoral College? and The Popular Vote vs the Electoral College.

Unfortunately, there is a movement across America that is gaining traction called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.  It would distort the procedures of the Electoral College.  It would usher in the very "democracy" that the Founders did not want.  It is unconstitutional.  

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Pearl Harbor plus 75 Years

Anita Christy

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, an attack planned by Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Marshal Admiral and commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, was carried out to demobilize the US Navy.  See Pearl Harbor plus 75 Years.

You probably have family members in their 80s and older who remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they got the news:  "We’ve just been attacked!"  Some memories fade quickly.  But not this one.  

My mother remembers.   She and my father had been married for less than a year.  He was a sergeant in the Army Air Corp stationed at Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois.  "It was a Sunday," she told me. They were visiting his parents on their farm in down state Illinois that day.   My father and grand-father were driving around the countryside looking at the land, which is what farmers often did and probably still do, after church on a Sunday.  They heard the news on the car radio.  "It was a ’40 Ford," Mom said.  They returned immediately to tell my mother and grand-mother.  "It was a total shock," remembers my mother.  "It was scary."  She and my dad returned quickly to their home.  "From that moment on, he had to be in uniform until the end of the war."  

The next spring, he shipped out to Seymour Johnson Air Field in North Carolina. Mom remembers that the base had been quickly constructed, using trees from the forest where the base was located. It was still being constructed when they arrived.  She recalls that it was a training base for mechanics and pilots.  My mother remembers that, throughout the war, she rarely saw pictures or got much word of what was happening.  "We didn’t have television."  Mostly, she saw newsreels in the local theater.  My father was eventually sent to India.  "It took thirty days for him to get there.  The ship had to zigzag across the ocean, to stay clear of submarines.  He didn’t know where he was going until he got there."    

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese killed 2402 Americans, destroyed 188 planes and damaged 159.  They sunk 4 battleships and damaged another 4.  "The Pearl Harbor attack spurred America into World War II, leading ultimately to Allied victory over the Japanese in the East and Nazis and other Axis powers in the West.  And the country promised never to forget this day of infamy."  See Unforgettable photos from the Pearl Harbor Attack, 72 years ago today. 

One of the battleships that was sunk was the USS Arizona.  See photos below.

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