CRC - Citizens for the Reading of the Constitution

We are a group of like-minded citizens who believe that our judiciary, legislators and executives have a profound responsibility to read and faithfully uphold the Constitution of the United States of America; to respect the boundaries of each branch which the Constitution sets forth clearly; and to enact the rule of law and judge the validity of the laws based upon the principles and authority laid out therein.

We oppose the broad readings of the Constitution that prompt judicial activism in the form of nonsensical rulings and the vast and unchecked extensions of power and waste taken by the federal government, both in legislation and execution.

We are a people who believe that the government does not have the right to expel us from our private property in order to make room for office buildings.

We are a people who believe that the president does not have the Constitutional authority to sidestep acts of Congress, or to produce legislature by means of executive orders.

We are a people who believe that it is the duty of Congress to enact laws which are strictly wtihin the bounds of Congress's Constitutionally-provided powers; that they not overstep their bounds and take on powers given solely to the states, or indeed any power prohibited to them, expressly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

"[t]he United States is entirely a creature of the Constitution. Its power and authority have no other source."
-Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (1957, Reid v. Covert)