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September 22, 2023

The latest newsletter from the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship:

A future where families can thrive
This week in our ARC Vision Series, we bring you a better story for families and communities – a story that restores children and families to the centre of society so that each of us can thrive in community.

Too often, we overlook the value of the family. Family is our first connection in life and often our last. At the family dinner table, our shared stories and fundamental values are passed to the next generation. In the rough and tumble of being brother and sister, we learn how to forgive. It is as we look on a newborn baby that we learn the true meaning of gratitude.

The evidence is overwhelming that there is no better model than the family for our core human relationships. The family is the primary crucible for character formation. Strong families, deeply embedded in wider communities, create a thick, resilient, and interconnected social fabric.

The fragmentation of our social fabric
Yet, over the last 50 years, Western societies have been progressively abandoning this original model for human relationships, and public policy makers and the media have failed to promote a positive vision of the family. This has had profound consequences.

Today, we are witnessing a teenage mental health crisis, an epidemic of loneliness, sky-high separation rates, instability about identity, widespread fatherlessness, and falling birth rates. One-third of young adults aged 18 to 25 in the US have some form of mental health problem.

The fraying of our social fabric is not only damaging the wellbeing of children and adults, but it also it leaves people poorer, more at risk of social injustice, and with fewer opportunities.

We cannot go on like this.

A better story for families and communities
At ARC, we believe that decline is not inevitable. These trends can be reversed.

Drawing on wisdom from our roots, we will renew a vision of society that puts children and families at its heart. We will promote and celebrate the central role of family unity in providing identity, stability, and responsibility. We will seek to develop policy solutions which provide a genuinely viable alternative pathway forward.

Each person’s life fundamentally matters, and we all have something to contribute. The trust and confidence that a strong social fabric brings releases each of us to contribute and thrive in community. For our own sakes, and for the sake of the next generation, children and families must be restored to the centre of our societies.

There is a better story.

ARC Research - Coming Soon
We are pleased to announce that next week we will begin releasing research papers commissioned by ARC. These papers, written by leading thinkers and researchers across the world, will provide deep analysis and offer solutions across the following topic areas:

Culture, story, and history
Family and community
Business and free enterprise
Energy and the environment
We will also be releasing short videos with each research paper which we will include in our newsletters and on our social channels.

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Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

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Declaration of Independence

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Declaration of Independence
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Barnes Brief: Friday, July 11, 2025

I.  Schedule

  • Benny Johnson Interview
  • Alex Jones Show w/ Owen Shroyer
  • Friday at 9ish: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
  • Saturday at 9: Movie Night
  • Sunday at 6 or 7: Law for the People

II.  Art of the Day: The hidden alleyways in ancient communities share secrets of generations past, wlecomed by the decorative arts on display in the magnificent murals, decorous streets, illuminated arches, old gas lights, as enveloped by nature. I love art that expresses itself in the everyday, shares its genius with all who come to it, making nature into an indoor-outdoor mirror of nature and the soul. Windows to the world, windows to our own world. 

III. Book of the Week: Robert Maxwell's Mossad ties, the founder of the Epstein Connection. 

IV.  Wisdom of the Day: "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott. 

 

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The Barnes Brief: July 4, 2025

I.  Schedule

  • Saturday 9 pm eastern: Movie July 4th Theme
  • Sunday 6 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes Law for the People

II.  Art of the Day

A pickup truck. By the beach. Our flag flowing in the wind. The center of summer. The celebration of American independence. The spirit of the 4th.The simplest joys partake, in backyard barbecues & flowing fireworks into the night sky. All for the liberty, freedom, and individuality unleashed by the American spirit that sentinel 4th of July, birthing a revolution of spirit around the world. America's Independence Day. 

III. Wisdom of the Day

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Declaration of Independence, 1776. 

IV. Book Recommendation

Declaration: The Nine Tumultous Weeks details the inside story of how the American revolution was anything but inevitable, birthed by the struggles of men and women willing to risk it all for a new cry for freedom and self-governance that will replace the royalists forever more. 

V.  News of the Week

  1. Big Beautiful Bill Passes
  2. Medicaid Cut Debate
  3. Socialist Rises
  4. Jobs Jump
  5. Democratic Disarray

*Bonus: Proud to be an American

VI.  Topic of the Week: American Independence

  1. Patrick Henry
  2. Adams
  3. Reagan
  4. MLK
  5. Fredrick Douglass

*Bonus: Webster

VII. Cases of the Week

  1. Judicial Coup Continues
  2. Diddy Verdict
  3. Big Beautiful Bill
  4. SCOTUS: TransSpeech
  5. Wisconsin: Politics & Judges

*Bonus: Coercion defense

VIII. Closing Argument: Our Eternal Oath

  • The American Revolution. The Declaration of Independence. July 4th, 1776.
  • A new doctrine of legitimacy for the exercise of state power. Henceforth, legitimate government depended upon the consent of the governed. This was because each individual held “the separate and equal station” by the logic of natural law — “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” This thus further entitled them “to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth” whenever made necessary by the conditions of their government. 
  • The eternal truths of the ends of government remained the same truths as God ordained, reason entitled, and nature spoke: the “self-evident truths” included that “all men are created equal” and as such endowed by their Creator “with certain unalienable Rights” of the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to the pursuit of happiness. This, and this alone, is the reason for government — “to secure these rights.” Security wasn't for physical safety but rather for liberty -- security measured by respect for the right to liberty, the right to life, and the right to the pursuit of happiness. Thereby, wherever and whenever government “becomes destructive” toward the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to the pursuit of happiness, then the self-evident right endowed by the Creator, and his creations in nature and reason, entitles “the people” to alter such government, abolish such government, and to, in their place, “institute new Government.”
  • The conservative counter to the radicalism inherent in the right of revolution was to temper such revolutionary spirit that “long established” forms of government only be changed for causes neither “light” nor “transient.” It is only upon a “long train of abuses and usurpations” that would reduce them to despotism that it becomes their “duty” to “throw off such Government” and provide better “Guards for their future security.”
  • The founders then laid out the evidentiary pleadings for their right to revolt, noting the dilution of the people’s right to pass laws on its behalf, the corruption of the judiciary from enforcing the laws impartially, and the rogue executive ignoring the invasion from within and without. This breach of forms bred results undesired and insecure to the people, including standing armies invading homes without cause, bureaucratic expansion that “sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance”, subject Americans to “a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws”, with “mock Trials” held by partial jurors away from the community of the judged, taxes without consent, unwarranted drafts into forced military service against their own people, and leaving borders unprotected from merciless dangers, while all petitions for redress of these grievances went unanswered and unaddressed. This left no choice but to declare our independence, rooting our government in both conservative claims and radical revolutionary aims, restoring power to the people our Creator endowed with inalienable rights which appeal to nature and reason — the archives of nature and the rights of man as God’s forensic fingerprint on the nature of man and earth alike. 
  • It is thus we must again renew the oath — “for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” 
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Barnes Brief: Friday, June 27, 2025

Schedule

  • Friday at 6 eastern: Betting w/ Barnes
  • Saturday at 9 eastern: Movie Night 
  • Sunday at 6 eastern: Law for the People w/ Viva

Art of the Day: The Water Fountain. To make the simple, elegant; the functional, expressive; the accessible, ideal. Decorative arts charm the mind by turning the ordinary into extraordinary, the everyday into an otherworldly invitation. This form of decorative arts remakes our material world into an ethereal paradise of the mind evoking the God shaped spark of the soul for a task as mundane as getting a sip of water. 

Book Recommendation History rhymes. The last effort of the Deep State to regime change in Iran birthed us the current regime. The Coup: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586980-the-coup?

Wisdom of the Day: “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.” George Washington, Farewell Address. 

 

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