SANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE
CONSTITUTION AND THE COMMON MAN
THE SANDS INSTITUTE

....is primarily educational in nature, doing research, publishing
papers and books, conducting seminars and symposia, in
attempting to re-energize ordinary citizens in a more civic
understanding of the underlying principles of the Constitution and
how it applies to their daily lives, and reciprocally, how they
conduct their daily lives applies to the health and well-being of the
U S Constitution.

This organization is dedicated to the simple principles:
That the greatest desire of Man is to be able to build, own and pass
on his House and to be able to create reciprocal relationships with
his neighbor(s) in order to protect each other’s right to do so;

That this desire is a major element of human liberty;

That the fundamental building blocks of the House can be
quantified;

That to facilitate and protect this common desire among men the US
Constitution was drafted and enacted, thereby creating an
unbreakable bond between the Common man and woman, the
Constitution and those who are sworn to protect and defend it;

That, from its inception, there are and always have been ideologies
and persons antagonistic to the precepts of the House, individual
human liberty, and the Constitution;

That, within the past several years, those antagonists have been
able to insinuate themselves into the fabric of American cultural,
economic and political life, thus standing between the Common man
and the fundamental blueprints of his House,

That they have been able to place tolls, guards and even locks on
doors the Constitution
declares shall be kept open for the use of citizens, when and where
and how they wish.

It is the belief of this Institute that the rescue of this relationship
between the Common man and the US Constitution is necessary if
the ideal of America and American Exceptionalism is to survive
another generation, and that rescue is as much cultural as it is
political.

The joint purposes of this Institute will be to
a) help re-educate the Common man and woman in being able to
understand the basic foundations of their House, the enemies to
that House, how to identify them, and both expel those that are
already inside the House, and bar those who are not;
b) educate protectors of the US Constitution in the arts of
defending it in the common culture, as well as re-establishing that
handshake between poor, working and middle classes that are key
to the Constitution’s protection and survival.