Organization

We strive to make each of our events and seminars an educational, yet entertaining experience for those attending NHCCS events.  We also strive to use primary source materials in our teachings, for example: the writings of the Founding Fathers, the Federalist Papers, The Articles of Confederation (and Perpetual Union) to include those which comprise American organic law; namely:  The Declaration of Independence, The Northwest Ordinance, The Constitution and The American Bill of Rights.

Our speakers and training materials are thoughtfully chosen and well grounded in primary source documents. We adhere to strict construction of the U.S. Constitution:

What do we mean by the term "strict construction?"  Our Founding Fathers explain  it best:

  "As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions of the Constitution, the debates and incidental decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character. However desirable it be that they should be preserved as a gratification to the laudable curiosity felt by every people to trace the origin and progress of their political Institutions, & as a source perhaps of some lights on the Science of Govt. the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it recd. all the authority which it possesses." _James Madison

 "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Nicholas, 1803.

Thus: "On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823.

Board of Directors

Honorary Board Members