Secure Our Rights
Welcome to a growing grassroots organization of concerned, volunteer patriots, just like you,
taking positive action to support our Constitution. Again welcome!
Our Citizen Movement
Secure Our Rights organization works to promote the local, South Dakota grassroots movement for an Article V Convention for proposing amendments to the United States Constitution. It matches similar efforts underway in every other state. Our resolution remains consistent with the present 19 states already approving the movement to propose amendments in the 3 topic areas.
States calling for an Article V Convention to consider:
1. Term Limits for Congress & other federal officals
2. Limit government spending and taxation
3. Keep government Constitutional...Stop runaway government
ARE WE FIGHTING THE RIGHT FIGHT?
Historically, we ask elected representatives to vote to pass positive legislation or defeat harmful ideas. When being honest with ourselves, this strategy often fails and conditions worsen. Through frustration we try and defeat incumbents in favor of new faces.
Rarely but occasionally we send new representation forward but only to find our new candidates fail to remain committed to campaign promises. Or the adverse circumstances may be not from the legislative branch but stemming from one of hundreds of government agencies or departments lead by unelected, unresponsive government bureacrats. Even congress cannot get a favorable responses from these government employees and fail to use the power of the purse for change.
Our next step is appeal to the courts (if we have the money resources to fight greivances) and these results often yield more disappointment than satisfaction.
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Convention Experience
There is an abundence of historical legal precidence setting the convention process; which eliminates the myth of a runaway convention. Additionally, the courts have already evaluated and established legal precedents in virtually all areas of the convention process. The agreement by the Constitutional and historical law and scholarly community support the state driven Article V process as safe and necessary. Our Founders got it right!!!
Our framers:
Our framers 3 times specifically rejected allowing another "Constitutional Convention" when drafting Article V for necessary amendments. Instead they unanimously built a steadfast, iron wall method to safely "propose" critically needed amendments. They knew this process could never be utilized unless the process guaranteed protection of the original Constitution. This is the beauty and inspired thought behind Article V amendments to Secure Our Rights.
September 17, 1787
The US Constituion was written and proposed by state delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787. The four page document was signed on September 17, 1787 but had to be ratified by the states before taking effect.
Independence Day
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. As we celebrate our Independance from Britian each 4th of July, if you want to be accurate, it is preferable to say “Happy Independence Day” instead of “Happy 4th of July”.
Secure Our Rights: Mission
The purpose of "Secure Our Rights" is to facilitate the return to the original intent of the 1787 Constitution of the Untied States of America and the subsequent 27 properly ratified amendments. We recognize certain judicial and governmental actions have wrongly diluted and/or grossly misinterpreted the Constitution leading to today's divergent application of government. This new annotated Constitution is far different than the original document's construction. This miscarriage can only be corrected by again properly exercising Article V and again clarify the founder's original intent and the subsequent orignial understanding during ratification. Our end state is achieved when our limited government again functions within its constitutionally enumerated powers and the American citizen recognizes the difference.
Mark Levin at CPAC 2024
“But wouldn’t it be nice if we heard here at CPAC at least one damn politician get up and say, ‘I’d encourage you to support Convention of States.’ Rather than say, ‘We’re gonna cut this and we’re gonna cut that.’ No you’re not! Because Washington is not going to fix Washington. YOU are going to fix Washington through Convention of States, Article V”
Want to Join us? We want and need you!
If you are concerned about the direction of our country and realize that we hold our future in our own hards, we want you to join Secure Our Rights. Your 2 year membership of $10 or lifetime $100 membership is used to inform more citizens about our Constitution. We have no paid employees and put 100% of funds raised to further this mission.
Members are encouraged to volunteer and become more involved in a variety of ways. Just help us to know your unique talents and we will work together to find the best way forward.
You can also joins as a "Supporter". Supporters are citizens that wish to be known and counted as promoters of the mission of the organization without any membership fee.
What can you do to help?
We need your help to share our mission with your family, friends and neighbors!
Do you know a place where we can have a town hall type of meeting to share our mission and get others interested and willing to help?
Are you able to organize a place, time and promote a meeting in your area? We can be there to explain why, and how and to answer questions.
Maybe you want to learn more and hold meetings yourself in your area!
Are you interested in making a donation to Secure Our Rights and help support our mission?
Where did our name come from?
It came from the Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS July 4 1776.
... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalioenable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to SECURE THESE RIGHTS, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ....."