I was standing in a building constructed during the reign of Catherine the Great near downtown Moscow when the Director of the Russian Ministry of Health gently put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Mr. Coleman, this building is older than your country.” I returned his warm smile and replied, “Yes, just about everything is older than our country.”

That fact makes it even more remarkable that our Constitution is the oldest written Constitution of any major government in the world. And the most radical - because it created the first and only government limited specifically to protecting the rights and liberties of the governed!

How are we doing with that “protecting the rights and liberties of the governed” thing? Most folks are saying, “Not too well.” Which makes The Institute’s new project even more critical.

As you may know, I’ve been teaching The Institute’s original series, “Origins of the Constitution: The Original Intent of the Framers,” in multiple cities across Arkansas this past year. The response has been amazing. As folks have rediscovered what our Founders intended for our country and its government, it’s kindled a new passion for what we’ve lost.

We lost the last generation in the classroom. We cannot afford to lose the next. So The Institute has embarked on the project of producing “Origins of the Constitution: The Original Intent of the Framers” on DVD and placing the series in every Arkansas school, college and university.

How important is it that our children know and understand the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty and freedom? How can they know what they’ve lost if they don’t know what they had?

We need your help to make this critically important project possible. Please consider a generous tax-deductible gift to The Institute for Constitutional Policy. Your gift will be used to support the production of the “Origins” series on DVD and its free placement in every Arkansas school.

For our country, our children and theirs, thank you!

Curtis