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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.”
The document contains no guarantees of freedoms that we now have under the Bill of Rights
(Article I, Part A, Section 1: “Freedom of expression shall not be abridged except in declared
emergency”). In an emergency, the government will have the power to curtail communication,
movement, and the right to assemble. It calls for public education, and gun control (Article I,
Part B, Section 8 “The bearing of arms or the possession of lethal weapons shall be confined to
police, members of the armed forces, and those licensed under the law”). The President will
serve one 9-year term (Article VI, Part B, Section 9, Subsection 8: “To assist in the maintenance
of world order and, for this purpose, when the President shall recommend, to vest jurisdiction in
international legislative, judicial and administrative agencies.”), and there will be two Vice-
Presidents. A hundred Senators will be appointed by the President for lifetime terms, not elected;
and there would be 400 members in the House of Representatives. Each of the 100
Congressional Districts will elect three for a three year term; and 100 will be elected by the
entire country, to serve a nine year term, and only they can become Committee Chairmen.
With the completion of the proposed Newstates Constitution, Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller, president of the U.S. Senate, developed support for the introduction of HCR 28,
which called for an unlimited Constitutional Convention in 1976. Swift public opposition
soundly defeated this attempt, so the Convention supporters then went to the states promoting a
“limited convention for the purpose of adding a balanced budget amendment.” They were able to
convince 32 of the required 34 states to pass resolutions calling for a convention. The last state to
sign on was Missouri in 1983, but after that, the legislatures in three states (Alabama, Florida and
Louisiana) realized the consequences of their actions and rescinded their call.