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             ~ Institutionalized Citizen Vigilance

                          ~ Defense of the Constitution

                          ~ Education of Our Nation

 

The We The People Congress is a nationwide, non-partisan, not-for-profit membership organization of constitutional activists committed to "institutionalizing" citizen vigilance through civic education, monitoring of governments, and organizing grassroots programs of civic resistance to confront and repel tyranny.

Based on the life work of Thomas Jefferson, the Congress is organized into local state and county "ward republics."  The Congress works closely with the WTP Foundation to achieve its mission to restore Constitutional Order and reclaim Liberty.

Our current work focuses centrally around the long-forgotten First Amendment Right to Petition. The Congress is determined to resurrect the "Capstone Right" of the Bill of Rights as an exercise of the People's natural Right to Sovereignty over their servant governments.

The Right to Petition is the profound, peaceful and constitutional solution that will save our Republic and restore Constitutional Order to our nation.

 

 WTP Congress News

March 3, 2009
 

UPDATE #20: Continental Congress 2009

New CC2009 Tri-fold Brochure Released 

Need Help Setting Up Meetings

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February 28, 2009

UPDATE #19: Continental Congress 2009
 

Schulz/CC2009 Meeting Tour 2.0 Starts This Weekend 

Organization Rising

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February 17, 2009

UPDATE #18: Continental Congress 2009

Help Bring CC2009 to Your State

Organizational Outreach & More Video

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February 13, 2009

UPDATE #17: Continental Congress 2009

Organizing, Explaining, Volunteers and Venues

CC2009: Update + More Regional Meetings,
AIG/TARP Lawsuit Update 


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February 1, 2009

UPDATE #16: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

More CC 2009 Video: Take it to the People!

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January 26, 2009

UPDATE #15: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Can’t Get to a CC 2009 Meeting?
Here’s Video!


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January 25, 2009

UPDATE #14: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Cleveland Testimonial

U.S. Government Pulls Philly Venue

CC 2009 Well Received, Gearing Up


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January 21, 2009

UPDATE #13: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Next CC 2009 Meetings Head East

Nominate Your Delegates Online Now!

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January 19, 2009

UPDATE #12: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen: Start Your CC 2009 Nominations!

Online Nomination System & Procedure Now Available


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January 17, 2009

UPDATE #11: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

New Faces, New Voices

WTP Congress Blog Lives Again

Next Week’s Meetings: MI, OH, NY

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January 15, 2009

UPDATE #10: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

WTP Rocks CO, SRO Crowd

Delegate Nomination System: Hours to go…

Next Week’s Meetings: Lansing, Cleveland/Akron, Rochester

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January 14, 2009

UPDATE #9: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Next Up: BBQ, Corn, Winter and Wind
                 (aka: Kansas City, Des Moines, Minneapolis
                  & Chicago)

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January 12, 2009

UPDATE #8: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

“Bowling For Freedom”
 

Schedule Revisions

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January 10, 2009

UPDATE #7: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Congress Rising in the Desert

Prepare Your Delegate Nominations!


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January 9, 2009

UPDATE #6: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Radio, Video and SF Venue Change

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January 7, 2009

UPDATE #5: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009
 

Prep Tour: High Attendance and Crowd Energy

Next: El Paso, Phoenix & CA, See Revised Schedule 

DIY Video Promotion Needed

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January 4, 2009

UPDATE #4: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

IMMEDIATE TASKS 

$14,000 TO RESERVE CONSTITUTION CENTER

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January 2, 2009

UPDATE #3: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

PREP TOUR: REVISED SCHEDULE 

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December 31, 2008
 

UPDATE #2: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

CON-CON: NO,  CC 2009: YES

DALLAS VENUE CHANGE

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December 30, 2008
 

UPDATE #1: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Delegate Selection Criteria & Process

Prep Tour Starts:  San Antonio and Dallas THIS WEEKEND

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December 25, 2008

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

The People Draw the Line in the Sand

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August 22, 2008

Ron Paul “Responds” to Petitions for Redress  

Government Puts Kibosh On Hunger Fast

Thus far, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has “responded” to the Petitions for Redress by having them “forwarded to the Clerk of the House.” 

While such a move is unique among the Members of the House, and is not a bad first step in etching the concept of Government accountability into the minds of some of the Members and advancing ever so slightly the question of the constitutional meaning of the last ten words of the First Amendment, it is highly unlikely that the Petitions for Redress will advance to House Committees for consideration, much less a vote to provide Redress. With the possible exception of Ron Paul, we know of no other politician willing to consider the notion of being held accountable to the People outside the periodic electoral process. 

 (continued...)

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July 27, 2008

UPDATE: Plan to Restore Constitutional Order

Will Rep. Ron Paul Provide Redress?

This nation is rushing headlong into debt, dependency and decay.
Unconstitutional acts have become the precedent for more of the same,
which become precedent for still further acts of despotism.

Can the People elect their way out of such tyranny?

Unfortunately, no!  It is not possible, as Ron Paul’s candidacy has proven. Every time he exposed the constitutional truth regarding an issue (e.g., the undeclared Iraq war and the Federal Reserve System) he lost a block of voters who possess
a vested interest in the status quo.

What then is the solution?   (continued...)

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July 18, 2008

TRUST: The Plan Depends On It

Bob Schulz Coming To A Theater Near You?

WTP’s Plan to Restore Constitutional Order is on track, but running behind schedule.

By now, the Petitions for Redress should have been delivered to every member of Congress and we should have been able to proudly proclaim, “Congress has been served!”

Unfortunately, we're not quite there yet.

To begin with, we timely mailed 1219 sets of Petition packages to over 700 people who volunteered to serve 535 members of Congress in their district offices on June 30, 2008, and to return to us a notarized proof of service. 

By July 3rd and again after the July 4th weekend we had received and were processing hundreds of returns from volunteers who had successfully completed service. However, by July 10th it was apparent that 129 of the 535 members of Congress had still not been served! 

(continued...)

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June 22, 2008

NEXT: "PUBLICITY BOMB"

HERE: FREE AND EASY TOOL

June 30, 2008 may go down in history as the day Americans began, in earnest,
the moral and solemn process of holding their Government accountable to the Constitution by directly exercising their unalienable and individual Right of
Redress, rather than depending upon the will of the majority of votes as cast
in local precincts, the halls of Congress or the inner chambers of our
courthouses.  (continued...)

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May 17, 2008

"People should not be afraid of their governments,
governments should be afraid of their People"

Freedom Requires Bravery

Historic WTP "V for Vendetta" Poster Now Available

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April 12, 2008

The Constitutional Conspiracy:

 

Courts Colluding With White House
to Avoid Accountability

The proof is in. The federal courts have been found to be co-conspirators with the Executive Branch in a collusive scheme to avoid being held accountable to the Constitution by the People.  

There can be no doubt. The federal judiciary is now being utilized as an weapon of oppression rather than for the ends of Justice for which it was designed.
 

Not only has the Judiciary abandoned its role as an independent arbiter of legal controversies involving injured citizens seeking remediation for Government wrongs, the Judiciary now refuses to even discuss the most basic, underlying Founding Principles upon which our Republic rests, i.e., the Rights of the People to Sovereignty and to hold Government accountable -- particularly its obligation to respond to Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts as provided by the First Amendment.

 

The most egregious result of these developments is that not only are the People effectively unable to secure Redress against Government entities that have harmed them, but the Judiciary has now abdicated its fundamental function under the Constitution by refusing to interpret the Constitution where questions of the Sovereignty of the People are implicated. (continued...)

Click Here To Access the Full Update

 
February 4, 2008
 

“SHAMEFUL AND TREASONOUS” 

Petition for Rehearing Filed
in Landmark Right-to-Petition Case

Taking advantage of one final procedural step to ask the U.S. Supreme
Court to hear the landmark Right to Petition case, on February 1st
Bob Schulz filed a Petition for Rehearing. 

“According to its own precedent, this Court would be abdicating its duty and committing treason to the Constitution if it fails to [accept jurisdiction
and hear this case]” wrote Schulz. “Tyranny marks a government that
ignores its free People.” 

Schulz also wrote that it would be “shameful” for the Court to fail to hear this first impression question of extreme public importance involving the interpretation of the Constitution while agreeing to hear the probate/bankruptcy/defamation case of Anna Nicole Smith.  

“Shall the People in republican America, with its written Constitution for the protection of the public Rights and a body of strictly limited powers, now be forbidden to do that which the Framers’ intended?” asked Schulz. 

Click here for a copy of the Petition for Rehearing.

RIGHT-Click here to download WTP's November, 2007 Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court and its Appendix.

 

June 24, 2007

Read It Twice:
En Banc Request Filed in DC 

Day of Prayer and Fasting: July 1st

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April 4, 2007

Right-to-Petition “V” Protest at
White House Garners Notice

Washington Post Gets It Right



(continued...)

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March 8, 2007

Calling all “V”s to Washington
March 30th at 3 PM

Stand In Support Of Our Petitions for Redress

Full “V” Costumes Available for $55 !

(continued...)

Click Here To Access the Full Update


January 20, 2007

The Wait Is Almost Over

Decision Expected Before GML 2007

Register Now for the Conference!

Within months, in all probability just before the Easter break, the hot topic of the day in every single law school in America will be the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in our case entitled, We The People v. The U.S. Government. 

Given the enormous and far-reaching implications of this decision, either in favor of the People or against them, law school professors everywhere will be anxious to analyze and “mine” the decision, discussing it in their faculty and academic forums and bringing it the attention of the young minds that fill their classrooms. Many will likely rush to further explore the gravity of the ruling and publish articles in Law Review journals.  

It will be an exciting time, indeed -- especially for the ordinary non-aligned citizen taxpayers of this great Country. 

The excitement will permeate Give Me Liberty 2007, our three-day conference scheduled for March 29-31.  

Think about it. For the first time in the entire history of our nation -- since the adoption of our Bill of Rights in 1791-- a Court is about to declare the legal meaning of one of the five individual Rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. 

Not just any Right, but the mother of all Rights -- the Right that caps all the others, the so-called “Capstone Right.”

(continued...)

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November 14, 2006


WTP Congress Members March as "V"
on Washington, DC

 
Almost a 100 WTP supporters gathered in Washington DC in mid-November to march upon and stand in silent vigil at the White House, Department of Treasury and the Department of Justice headquarters to await the Government's response to the WTP Petitions for Redress of Grievances.

Needless to say, the Government once again ignored the People and exercise of their First Amendment Right of Petition.

Read the full update about this important WTP event. 
   

We The People Live Right-to-Petition
Webcasts Featured


Be sure to watch the video archives of the 14 local live broadcast events that were held on the 2006 Right-to-Petition tour stretching from Concord, Massachusetts to Austin, Texas.  Webcast Archives!

July 6, 2006

WTP Right to Petition Event Held Yards
From Where Declaration Signed
  On Tuesday, July 4, the We The People’s Right to Petition tour event was held in the new Independence Mall visitor center in Philadelphia, overlooking the lawn just yards from where the members of the Continental Congress gave birth to our form of government and committed their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the defense of Liberty.

The video of the July 4th event can be accessed from the
archive webcasts page.
 


What do the Last Ten Words of the
First Amendment Really Mean?


Our Nation is About to Find Out

We The People v. The U.S. Government
DC USDC Case # 04CV01211

The Landmark Lawsuit
to Restore Constitutional Order


A Profound Constitutional Solution
To Fix What Ails Our Nation:

The First Amendment Right to Petition Government
and the Right to Peacefully Secure Redress
by Withholding Taxes

 

Get the latest lawsuit news:

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Information
Center

(court filings, legal research, etc)

Watch the video explaining the
 Right to Petition

Read the transcript

Read the
May 2006
  Appeal to the
DC U.S. Court
 of Appeals

 


Here's what our Founders
had to say about the
Right to Petition:

"If money is wanted by Rulers
 who have in any manner oppressed the People,
 
they may retain it
 until their grievances
 are redressed,

 and thus peaceably
procure relief,
without trusting to
despised petitions or
 disturbing the public tranquility."


Journals of the Continental Congress, 1:105-113

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Jan. 2008
U.S. Supreme Court
refuses to hear Appeal
of landmark Right-to-Petition lawsuit
Learn More About the Right to Petition and our landmark lawsuit to restore Constitutional Order.
 
In July 2004 almost two thousand ordinary Americans filed suit in federal court asking the judiciary to declare - for the first time in history - the constitutional meaning of the First Amendment Petition clause.
 


C-SPAN covers Live WTP DC
Right-to-Petition
Lawsuit Event

Watch the 3-minute video
preview including
C-SPAN's broadcast
 of the WTP event.

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If you are having trouble streaming the previews,
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 (1.2 MB, Windows Media).


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Right-to-Petition documentary on DVD


Read the
text of the 2002
Speech in Washington DC by Bob Schulz Justifying Resistance
by We the People

 


WTP's “V”
Meets The
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