Who We Are

The People’s Campaign for the Constitution (PCC) was initiated in March 2008 by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), a national organization based in Northampton, Massachusetts.

BORDC developed and coordinated the Bill of Rights resolution campaign, which has involved community coalitions in 46 states. These coalitions organized to get local and state governments to defend the Bill of Rights and oppose laws and policies inaugurated under the guise of the “War on Terror” that violate these rights. Since 2002, 406 town, city, and county governments, plus eight state governments have passed these resolutions, helping to dramatically alter the public debate on constitutional liberties since 9/11. Local organizers who were involved with those efforts provided valuable input for this campaign.

Six years of grassroots action to restore constitutional protections have led to increased oversight, congressional hearings, and many unfulfilled promises of more changes, but they have fallen short of the full restoration of constitutional rights and liberties that people who are familiar with the Constitution demand. Indeed, some of the abuses have gotten worse. The BORDC is initiating the PCC out of the recognition that we need a strategy to address the common source of the multiple threats to our Constitution, because we’ve seen that we are more numerous, stronger and, more energized when we re-unite our local coalitions to face common threats to our Constitution and Bill of Rights.