In his speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry admonished his colleagues to “[g]uard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.”
- Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
The Patrick Henry Caucus...
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
-Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
We, the Patrick Henry Caucus, unite to sustain the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. We pledge to support and uphold...
James Madison asserted that “[t]he powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite… The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and...
“The power under the constitution will always be in the people. It is intrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and, whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will be recalled.”
-George Washington
The purpose of the Patrick Henry Caucus...
The time to act is now! The desire for change is not enough. As people of good conscience, we much get involved and unite in defending the liberties that we hold dear. We must act.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence recognized that to establish this nation it was essential to pledge all they possessed.
“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection...
Thomas Jefferson boldly stated that “[w]hen the Legislative or Executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them (the people) not enlightened enough to exercise their...
Our mission and goal is to share ideas among the states for potential legislative action. Of course there will always be areas of greater concern for some states than for others, but there will always be commonalities. For Western States, control of public lands is important and whether or not federal control of large tracts of land interferes with state sovereignty. All states are concerned...
