About

“We The People for President” is a movement of Christians and patriots to give government power back to the People. We will do this by restoring lawful, statutory militias organized under State authority at the local, county and State level for the defense of our communities, and by restoring economic freedom: Congress abdicated its monetary duty by giving to the Federal Reserve the ability to print currency. By this act the fiat banking system, built on debt-based, interest-bearing currency, now keeps families in debt and erodes our savings, enforced by an overreaching federal government. The Federal Reserve and IRS will be addressed by the power of the People in grand juries.

“We The People for President” puts our Lord Jesus Christ, the Church and family life, at the center of economic activity. The duty of the State is to help the Church and the People defend the rights given to us by the God of Sacred Scriptures.

Love for life does not deter us from death. By the blood of the Lamb shed in His sacrifice on the Cross, we will conquer the prince of this world, Satan, and his followers.

We belong to Our Lord Jesus Christ! No king but Christ the King!

Christ the King

You who honor Christ the King together — in your hearts and minds, in your families and schools, and in every public square not yet closed to Him — are mustard seeds of His Social Kingship. Tyrants can shut the courthouse door and the schoolhouse gate, but they cannot shut out the King. His indestructible Kingship stands infinitely above every earthly power, and it can enter anywhere, in small and hidden ways, just as the Eternal Word entered human history in the womb of the Blessed Virgin.

When you offer and consecrate all that you are and all that you have to Him, you become more than a sign of the Kingdom to come. You become living proof that His reign is present here and now, a foretaste of the day the psalmist foretold:

“And all kings of the earth shall adore Him: all nations shall serve Him.”
— Psalm 72:11

The Social Reign of Christ

Christ is King of redeemed mankind. His rule does not stop at the church door or the private conscience. It reaches individuals, families, society, and the State itself. His Kingship has two sides: a spiritual rule shared with the Church, and a temporal rule shared with the rulers of nations, who govern under Him and never on their own authority.

Christ fully reigns only when a nation accepts His program and builds its laws and institutions around it. Christendom came closest in the 13th century. Every century since has been a retreat, and America is living with the result.

The Divine Plan for Order

The Enemy: Naturalism

Naturalism is the lie that society can be ordered without God or His grace. It puts the “rights of man” in place of the Rights of God, and it has driven every secular revolution, liberalism, and Communism. Restoring the Social Reign of Christ means rejecting it in our homes, our schools, and our government.

Drawn from Fr. Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and Organized Naturalism (1943), and Pope Pius XI’s encyclical on Christ the King, Quas Primas (1925).

Our movement at its core is to protect the family. We will restore families economically by working to free them from the burden of the federal income tax and the IRS.

We support restoring the defensive, State-authorized militias recognized in the Bill of Rights:

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Subsidiarity: Power Belongs Closest to the People

Subsidiarity is one of the central ideas of our movement and the key to giving power back to the States and to We the People. It means that decisions should be made at the most local level that can handle them: first the family, then the community, the county, and the State. A higher authority should step in only to help when a lower one cannot do the job, and never to take its place.

It is common sense. A business owner knows his customers, his workers and his books better than any distant regulator, so he makes the best decisions for his business. A father knows his wife and children better than any government agency, so he makes the best decisions for his family. The people closest to a community know its needs, answer to their neighbors, and live with the results of their choices. Things are managed better this way.

When the Opposite Happens

When decisions are taken away from the people who live with them and handed to distant officials, management breaks down. Officials in Washington write one-size-fits-all rules for communities they have never seen. Mistakes drag on for years because no one nearby has the power to fix them. Those who make the decisions never answer to those who pay for them, so no one is held accountable. Costs climb, paperwork piles up, and families, small businesses and towns learn to wait for permission instead of solving their own problems. The result is waste, dependence and resentment, the very marks of the overreaching federal government this movement exists to correct.

The True Job of Government: Promoting Virtue

Subsidiarity does not mean a central government has no work to do. It means its work is different. Its highest duty is not to run every home, farm and business. Its duty is to help its people become good, so that the family, the business owner and the town can make wise and virtuous choices on their own.

This idea is very old. Socrates spent his life urging the people of Athens to care for their souls before their money or their fame. At his trial he told the jury that money does not make a man good, but goodness brings every other blessing, to the person and to the city alike. His student Plato taught that a city can only be as good as the people who live in it, and that every law should aim at making citizens virtuous.

The early Church Fathers carried this truth forward. St. Augustine warned that a kingdom without justice is nothing more than a large band of robbers. St. John Chrysostom urged fathers and mothers to make their home a little church, where children learn faith, honesty and self-control. Strong homes, he knew, build a strong people.

The lesson is simple. A government that spreads virtue makes its people stronger. A government that tries to replace their judgment makes them weaker. When families are strong and business owners are honest, they need little control from above, and freedom grows. When virtue fades, people can no longer govern themselves, and a central power rushes in to fill the gap. That is why WTPP calls government back to its proper role: honor God, protect the family, promote virtue, and then step back and let the People govern.

Drawn from Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quadragesimo Anno (1931), which set out the principle of subsidiarity; Plato’s Apology and Laws; St. Augustine’s The City of God (Book IV); and St. John Chrysostom’s Homily 20 on Ephesians.

Against Fiat Money and Usury

WTPP stands firmly against today’s fiat currency system and the usury built into it. Fiat money is paper and digital money backed by nothing but a promise. The Federal Reserve creates it out of thin air and lends it into the economy with interest attached. Because nearly every dollar begins life as a debt, the debt keeps growing. Families, farms, businesses and the nation itself are trapped in a cycle of borrowing, while their savings quietly lose value year after year. This is the opposite of subsidiarity: it draws the wealth of the People upward into the hands of distant bankers.

St. Basil the Great on Usury

In the fourth century, St. Basil the Great preached a famous sermon against usury, based on the Psalm that praises the man “that hath not put out his money to usury” (Psalm 14:5). Basil called lending at interest one of the cruelest of sins, because it profits from a neighbor’s hardship. He pointed out that the Greeks called interest tokos, meaning “offspring,” because the debt keeps giving birth to more debt. He begged the poor to do almost anything rather than borrow at interest, and he urged the rich to give and lend freely, as Christ commands: “lend, hoping for nothing thereby” (Luke 6:35).

Dante’s Picture of a Good Society

The great Italian poet Dante Alighieri taught the same truth in his Divine Comedy. In the Inferno, he places the usurers in the seventh circle of Hell, among those who sinned against God and nature. They sit on burning sand under a rain of fire, with money purses hanging from their necks. To Dante, usury was unnatural, because it makes money multiply without honest work.

In the Paradiso, Dante shows the opposite ideal. In Cantos 11 and 12, two great saints are honored side by side: St. Francis of Assisi, who gave away all his wealth and took “Lady Poverty” as his bride, and St. Dominic, who fought error with the truth of the Faith. Dante has a Dominican, St. Thomas Aquinas, sing the praises of Francis, and a Franciscan, St. Bonaventure, sing the praises of Dominic. Holy men build each other up instead of competing for gain.

The lesson is clear. The greatness of a society is not measured by its money supply, its stock market or its armies. It is measured by the saints it produces. A society built on usury trains people to chase debt and profit. A society built on Christ forms men and women who give, serve and become holy. That is the society WTPP is working to restore.

Drawn from St. Basil the Great’s Homily on Psalm 14 (Against Usurers); Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Inferno Cantos 11 and 17 and Paradiso Cantos 11 and 12; Psalm 14:5 (Douay-Rheims); and Luke 6:35.

Rediscovering America: Restoring the Sovereignty of the States

We the People for President (WTPP) seeks to rediscover America through the founding principles of liberty, self-government, and the sovereignty of the States.

America’s first governing charter, the Articles of Confederation, established a union of sovereign States joined for their common defense, mutual welfare, and preservation of liberty. The Federalists subsequently advanced a new constitutional framework that transferred greater authority to a central government, while the Anti-Federalists warned of the dangers of concentrated power.

WTPP seeks to renew this foundational debate by examining the Articles of Confederation as a model for restoring authority to the States and bringing government closer to the people. Its vision invites Americans to reconsider the proper relationship between the federal government, the States, and the citizens from whom legitimate governmental authority originates.