As American patriots, it is our duty to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.  All officers of the federal government (the President, members of Congress, Justices of the Supreme Court and all subordinate employees of the three branches) take an oath to preserve, protect and defend it.

As citizens, it is our duty to be informed on contemporary issues and to participate in government because our republic was designed to be self-government of the people---to be a limited government where individual liberties are maximized.  Furthermore, the duty, by definition, involves understanding the Constitution, U.S. history and the rules of government in order to make informed judgments regarding the proper roles of government and whether it's performing as it should today.

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended."
--Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

Aside from offering genealogical and historical information for researchers, this website is to provide information to fellow citizens so they may fulfill their duties.  This website provides a context for the issues relevant to government's proper scope (issues as old as Plato's Republic ) and how we should go about restoring American government to its proper limited roles.  In order to do that, some relevant history is required. 

"The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts."
--Frederic Bastiat

This website does not presume to tell you how to think.  Rather, it's to provide you with some facts, some opinions and some resources to check on your own so that you might reach a reasonably informed opinion on the issues discussed.  Your presence here suggests that you want to learn more or that you're at least curious about these issues.  If you believe it your duty to be an informed citizen, please continue. If you consider it in your best interest to be informed, please continue.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
-- Sir Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

The links below will lead the reader to a reasonably comprehensive understanding of the Confederate Cause.

1. Government as the Founders intended
2. Secession in principle :  Part I
3. Secession in principle:  Part II
4. Secession in principle:  Part III
5. Causes of the War
6. Slavery worldwide and in the New World
7. Propaganda against southern heritage and symbols
8. What does the Confederate flag represent?
9. Conclusions

....under construction

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