FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
alternative to the existing Constitution. One of the group’s Board
members, James MacGregor Burns, a history professor, said: “If we
are to turn the founders upside down ... we must directly confront the
constitutional structure they erected.” About a third of the CCS Board
members belonged to the CFR, including Chairman C. Douglas Dillon
(former Secretary of Treasury), Lloyd Cutler (former legal council to
President Carter, and council to President Clinton), and Sen. Nancy
Kassebaum. Some of the other members were: Robert McNamara
(former Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson), Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sen. Charles Mathias, Sen. J. William
Fulbright, and others who were associated with the Brookings
Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson Center.In October, 1970, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a
tax-exempt foundation in Santa Barbara, California (financed by the
Ford and Rockefeller Foundations with up to $2-1/2 million annually),
published in their magazine Center, an article called the “Constitution
for the United Republics of America,” which emanated from a concept
that was initially drafted in 1964, and was the forerunner for a later
version. The principle author of this document was Rexford Guy
Tugwell (who was the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under
President Franklin Roosevelt), who directed a team of close to 100
socialist educators who contributed to the project.In Tugwell’s 1974 book, The Emerging Constitution, the 40th version of
the original draft was published as “A Constitution for the Newstates
of America,” which the Ford Foundation spent $25 million to produce
and promote. Tugwell claimed that our Constitution was too
cumbersome and needed to be changed. He believed that it was
possible to get this new “Constitution” adopted, and said: “...it could
happen that the present system of government would prove so
obstructive and would fail so abysmally to meet the needs of a
continental people and a great power that general recognition of the
crisis would occur. There might then be a redrafting of the basic law,
and, if so, then it might be that this model we have worked out over a
number of years might be taken into account.” The new Constitution
calls for the States to be divided into Ten Federal Regions, called
Republics, which would be “subservient departments of the national
government.”