The Statesmen for the Constitutional Republic is a community outreach, education, and community mobilization organization dedicated toward reversing the long-term problems of social and political decay in the United States. Over time, we have largely failed, not just in protecting our rights as free citizens, but even more in fulfilling our duties to ourselves and our communities as responsible citizens who wish to remain free. We have elevated personality over character, fear and emotion over deliberation and debate, moving money over direct and personal involvement in our communities, instant gratification over long-term solutions, intervention over self-discipline and self-control, legislation and bureaucracy over personal leadership and example. We have promoted career politicians instead of raising up statesmen. Our mythology is dead: the age of miracles is past and God, we have said, does not take an interest in today's affairs— and therefore neither have we.

The Statesmen intends to change that: a little at a time, but we believe paying dividends with every step. Through civics education, through leadership, through personal example, we intend to raise Statesmen who:

• understand the nature of Republican government,
• protect their rights and duties under that government,
• are capable of rational debate and critical thinking,
• are familiar with parliamentary process which is designed to protect both the majority and minority from each other,
• are able to show courtesy and gentility toward opponents,
• are active in our communities and directly involved with social, spiritual, and economic outreach to create the equality of opportunity which has always been the promise of America, not through government fiat, robbing Peter to pay Paul, but through private and personal acts of compassion.

In order to shrink government, we must grow communities.

The knight honored the chivalric virtues of noblesse, largess, prowess, and loyalté, sometimes honored in the breach, but always held as a rod to measure themselves against. In the age of chivalry it was understood that we, ourselves, personally are responsible for the legends of tomorrow, for the stories which will be told to our children and our children's children. It is our responsibility, privately, personally, to give them the kind of stories which will inspire them to reach inside themselves and inspire a nation to be greater than the sum of its parts. It was understood that God was active in our lives, that our responsibility was to our duty, to work toward the good, to try to establish fairness, justice, and equity in a world foreign to those things. Our responsibility is still to duty; God's responsibility is to decide the outcomes, the challenges and opportunities passed to the next age. We do not live in an age of knights, but the chivalric virtue and pragmatic, rural Christianity has application today to the challenges and opportunities we face. A statesman may wield a pen more often than a sword, stand on a kind word or merely a true word more often than sitting a horse, but the Statesmen looks to the Age of Chivalry and the age of our Founders for inspiration, knowing that those times were as chaotic and imperfect as our own and yet people rose to meet the challenge and became legend.

As in any age, there are times where words are not enough. Statesmen shall be called to act on what they believe by helping each other to discover how we are called to serve: in our communities, in our country, and in our world. As such, the Statesmen for our Constitutional Republic will promote political solutions, attempt to raise a generation of new leaders, promote and nourish private, participative charity, participate in emergency response, relief, personal and civic defense, teaching and diplomacy. In most cases, it will not be necessary for the Statesmen as an organization to lead these actions as many other organizations already exist lead by dedicated people. We have charities, we have schools, we have political organizations and parties, we have emergency personnel, relief efforts, police and military. Rather, it will be the job of the Statesmen to provide the principled underpinnings for action at the community level, for raising awareness in, driving recruitment for, and in some cases revitalizing structures which have lost their way, for increasing communication and cooperation between disparate groups. Individual Statesmen will be members of many groups and the organization will help to start up and spin off efforts we find to be missing or falling short of what is needed.

The Statesmen is, at core, focused around Christian virtues and a life of service, but it welcomes people of all faiths who share our values and our call to duty. Similarly, although our belief in a Constitutionally-limited Republican government would make us predisposed toward certain parties or political affiliations, we endorse none. In many cases, our use of words such as "Republican," "liberal," "conservative," "militia," "liberty" goes back to an earlier, foundational context which has been lost or twisted by modern usage. Providing that context is part of the reason for our existence.