About LACCC

The Los Angeles Constitutional Congressional Coalition was formed to help educate Citizens about the Constitution and our nation's foundational principles so as to elect congressional representatives with a principled view of the Constitution.

Foundational Principles, not political parties...

Our purpose is to help change the election paradigm from the current top-down method where political parties and special interests back career politicians based on their electability and pay-for-play - to a bottom-up movement where the people, armed with knowledge of the Constitution, can elect representatives from among themselves with the character, real-life experience and courage to adhere to the Constitution as our founders intended.

Founding Principles

Our country was founded as a constitutional republic based on the principle of limited governance to protect the fundamental rights of individuals such as life, liberty and property from both the government and from majority factions. James Madison in the Federalists Papers (No.10) argued for a constitutional republic with protections for individual liberty and the protection for property rights over a pure democracy. He brilliantly proclaimed that in a pure democracy, a "common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority..." "for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law."

The founders believed that the proper formulation of government came not from abstractions such as reason and reactionary thinking, but from an understanding of the corrupt "nature" of man (No.51) through experience and important societal institutions such as the family and the Church. They understood that wisdom drawn from moral principles tested across the ages is superior to reason which may be a mask for the preferences of one man, and at best represent only the untested knowledge of one generation. They saw the sovereignty of the individual, with private property rights, as essential to individual liberty and that individual rights are natural, inherent, or inalienable and exist independently of government. They did not have an interest in material equality but only in "equality before the law" and objected to group rights being pursued at the expense of individual rights.

1. All people are created equal
2. All things are created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind are equally dependant, and to Him they are equally responsible.
3. People are created by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
4. A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
5. Self-governance is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
6. A constitution shall be constructed to permanently protect the people from the human desire for power by their rulers.
7. The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written (Contract) constitution.
8. Life and Liberty are secure only as long as the right of Property is secure.
9. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not to provide equal things.
10. Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being retained in the people.
11. The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
12. The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free market economy and a minimum of government regulation.
13. The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
14. A free people cannot survive under a constitutional republic unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
15. The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders.

Why They Matter

Over the last hundred years we have seen a shift away from relying on foundational principles toward legal precedent and case law to interpret the Constitution. This has given rise to the notion that our Constitution is a "living breathing" document whose meaning should evolve with changing times, instead of an authoritative document founded on a set of timeless principles.

We have dramatically eroded our ability as citizens to safeguard against creating, passing and funding of unconstitutional federal programs by our Congress. Our cause is to help citizens reclaim the principles by which our Constitution was written and thus the spirit by which it is to be applied.

The founders held that the federal government was not the sole or final judge of its own authority, holding that this would "make it, and not the Constitution, the judge of its powers." This means the people of the individual states are the final check on federal power to ensure compliance with the Constitution.

Ultimately it is only "We the People", by electing Constitutionally-minded candidates to Congress, who can compel our representatives to comply with the Constitution.

Join the LACCC in Restoring the People to their Rightful Place!