“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
— James Madison
The Committee For The Republic is a citizen-based, non-partisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2003. The Committee sponsors speakers monthly on challenges to the American Republic (including the military-industrial complex and too-big-to-fail banks) and seeks to make the Constitution the battleground in American politics.
Constitutional Restoration
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Separation of Powers
The guarantor of peace, liberty and justice
Two great congressional triumphs of the 20th Century were the rejection of the Versailles Treaty and the forced resignation of President Nixon. The work of the 21st Century Congress is to restore the following powers:
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The War Power
The Crown Jewel of the Constitution.
Since 1950, Congress has abdicated its most vital power. Congress must exercise its war power and end presidential wars.
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The Impeachment Power
Enforcing the constitution.
The punishment must fit the crime: high crimes against the Constitution must be stopped.
The Constitution rejects the law of the jungle where the strong do what they will and the weak accept what they must.
Stop Voting for Empire. Start Voting for the Constitution.
Are you tired of summer soldiers and sunshine patriots? Our decline is not inevitable—it is a choice you make. Help us make Congress great again by ending Congressional abdication.
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Constitutionalism is Nonpartisan
The oath of office is to the Constitution, not to the Democratic or Republican Party.
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Cause of the Constitutional Crisis
Our imperial presidency comes not from what Democrats and Republicans disagree on. but from what they agree on. Spending $2.7 trillion a year on Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid does not create an imperial presidency. Spending $1.7 trillion a year on the military has. -
Dismantling the Imperial Presidency
Congress has abdicated every one of its 17 enumerated powers, except copyrights and patents. Congressional abdication and executive usurpation must end.
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Restoring the Power of the Purse
Presidential wars can be ended by Congress cutting off the funding.
“America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force…. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit….”