Welcome

The United States is experiencing “systematic civics failure”. A majority of Americans get an “F” on basic civics exams. This includes – college graduates, college professors, politicians and young adults. In fact, one of the most concerning statistics today is that almost 50% of Young Adults between 18 and 34 believe that America’s founding documents are irrelevant to governing our modern society.Our public school systems and modern universities are turning out a generation of young people that are “civically illiterate.”

The U.S. Civics Training Initiative’s purpose is to meet this shortcoming straight on. Our unique approach is to take some of the foundational principles and documents of our free republic and present them in a concise and systematic way in a web video format that can be viewed by individuals, families, and groups anytime and anywhere. Our approach is to focus on key civic principles that are no longer taught. What is currently on the site represents about 25% of the content that we will build out over time as we can fund it.

Even with what has been produced so far, the impact has been profound. We have had over 35,000 individuals from across the world view these seminars. Families, civic groups, church groups, and businesses have used them to train small and large audiences.

The sad truth is that back during the founding period 90% of Americans knew the content presented in these web seminars. Today over 95% of Americans have never heard them presented. In the last 100 years, we have deviated from these truths tremendously. Today when Americans hear these truths again, they are motivated to help keep America “the land of the free and the home of the brave” and they yearn to share these concepts with others.

So, we are glad you are here. You can see comments of others below. You can get started in your own Civics Education right away by simply going to the Training Center tab at the top of the page and begin to sample some of the web seminars there.

Thanks for your interest. We hope you enjoy our current free offerings and sign up to be a member so that together we can work toward a national revival of the first principles of freedom and liberty.

Request these business size cards of quotes from the Declaration and Constitution (on the back) through the contact us form.

Quantities in increments of $10 per 100

Complete Training Series on The Cycle of Freedom coming July 2013.

• Wow!- good content – it’s like “The U.S. Constitution for Dummies.” I like the visuals on the Constitution itself – good job!
• This should be mandatory in all schools around the nation.
• I am definitely going to use this in my classroom. Thanks.
• I’m so happy you did this video, thank you! Everyone that sees this should pass it on!
• Thank  you for doing this. This will help lots of people that need to know our Constitution and why this country is so great.
• Excellent job! Jefferson would be proud!
• Thanks for this. I love studying American history and this helps very much to understand the Declaration in a much better way. – The Netherlands
• An amazing video. I am a Canadian, but seeing this video can really explain how important the foundations of a nation really are, and sir, you have done an exceptional job in analyzing and explaining these concepts. Thanks! ~ Canada
• Thank you! I truly think this is the most unbiased civics/political video I have ever watched. And I think your idea of the concepts of the Declaration are truly great. This was very helpful to me. Thanks !
• This is an excellent video! I just sent this to my nieces and told them to show their teachers to find out if it compares to what/how the Declaration of Independence is currently being taught in schools. Thanks!
• Thank you so much for these seminars.  They are helping me tremendously in my AP History and Civics classes.
• I have just listened to all of your seminars.  I must confess, you have taught me to think about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in an entirely new way.  Although,  I attended a nationally known Law School for three years and have been practicing law for over 40 years, I have never had the fundamental relationship between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence taught to me in such lucid terms. 
• We finished our study of the US founding documents using your web seminars.  Everyone was impressed and enlightened by your presentations.   All in all, it has been my most enjoyable series in the 15 years I have been leading this class, I think as a practical matter it probably did more good than anything else we have done in the last 15 years as well and we have done some pretty good stuff.
• Well done!