What We Do
The Constitutional Coalition helps citizens understand their freedoms and responsibilities. Programs and materials are anchored in the country's greatest foundational documents, the US Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
Our Constitution established specific powers of the federal government, powers that are limited and enumerated. The founders believed that the government exists to perform only those services that the people cannot provide for themselves, such as the national defense. Local and state government powers were also to be limited and enumerated with the people self governing in all other areas.
The founders held that only a moral people - a nation of godly people with common spiritual and social values - were capable of self government.
The Declaration of Independence eloquently communicates those truths that undergird the Constitution. The document proclaims clearly that rights do not come from men. They come from a Creator. That Creator, said the founding fathers in their collective wisdom, is the God of the Old and New Testaments. Of 15,000 writings of the 55 men who signed the Constitution, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, and books, the Bible, especially the book Deuteronomy, contributed 34% of all direct quotations. When indirect citations were included, over half of all quotations were derived from the Bible.
These foundational perspectives - the gift of a remarkable band of visionaries - are the yardstick used by the Constitutional Coalition to measure its current initiatives as it equips and enables citizens to understand their government, education and family concerns.