Bill of Rights Circles

Educate. Empower. Choose.

Neighbors who want to learn the Bill of Rights — reading the amendments, checking public records, and deciding for themselves.

National American Citizen Association is a 501(c)(3) civic education nonprofit. Circles are study groups, not political chapters.

What a Circle is

A Circle is a small group of neighbors who meet (in person or online) to study the Bill of Rights — one amendment at a time — using public sources.

  • Educate: clear text, court landmarks on the public record, and plain context.
  • Empower: tools and reading so you can follow along.
  • Choose: you decide what the record means for you. We do not tell you how to vote.

Circles are not chapters, caucuses, or campaigns. My Voter Card is a separate voter-information tool and is not part of Circles.

How it works

  1. Join National American Citizen Association at Join.
  2. Optionally answer a short post-Join survey (ZIP optional) if you want Circles updates.
  3. We share the current Bill of Rights study materials and, when ready, help you find or form a Circle near you.

Hosting a Circle

Offices, clubs, religious congregations, and similar civic groups may host a Bill of Rights study Circle — a place and time (or online room) and a named facilitator contact. The topic stays on the Bill of Rights and Constitution education spine: live National American Citizen Association Amendment pages and the National Archives primary text.

Listings use this line: A Bill of Rights study Circle hosted by [entity name]. Circles are study groups of the National American Citizen Association — not chapters, caucuses, or campaigns.

Hosting does not make the entity a National American Citizen Association chapter, affiliate, or standing local unit. Membership in the host is not membership in National American Citizen Association, and the reverse is not true either.

Religious congregations

When a congregation hosts a Circle, the meeting is civic education — reading the amendments and public records — not worship, a sermon substitute, or ministry branding. National American Citizen Association does not endorse the congregation’s faith, and hosting does not mean the congregation endorses any candidate, party, or political campaign. There is no church chapter, parish chapter, or pulpit drive through Circles.

Topic first — interest test

  1. Propose a Bill of Rights topic (for example Amendment III, the Speech Clause, or a first reading of the full Bill of Rights).
  2. Share it with members who opted into Circles updates.
  3. If enough neighbors want to learn that topic, schedule the first reading. If not, archive or offer it again later.
  4. Solo readers can always start at the Bill of Rights hub.

Neighbors who want to learn the Bill of Rights — not a chapter signup.

Want your office, club, or congregation to host?

For the pilot, email Marcus.Whitaker@nacagroup.com with:

  • Entity name
  • Type (office / club / religious congregation / other civic)
  • City or ZIP
  • Named facilitator contact
  • Bill of Rights topic interest

Membership logs the request for the pilot. Existing Join and My Voter Card paths stay unchanged — use Join only if you are becoming a member; host interest for this pilot is email-first.

Optional Circles interest (members): Circles survey (ZIP optional).

Volunteer appreciation points

People who give time to Circles — facilitating, preparing with the Education one-pager, or inviting neighbors who want to learn the Bill of Rights onto the Circles interest list — may receive volunteer appreciation points. Membership keeps a simple ledger and sends a short thank-you. On request, email Marcus.Whitaker@nacagroup.com for your running total.

Volunteer appreciation points recognize time given to Circles study groups. Points have no cash value, are not wages or employment, and are not offered in exchange for donations.

Points are recognition only — not pay, not a prize catalog, and not tied to Join or My Voter Card registration. No public leaderboard in this cut.

Circles remain Bill of Rights study groups. Educate. Empower. Choose. We put the Constitution in citizens’ hands. We do not tell you how to vote.

National American Citizen Association

Study packet (Education — first reading)

Bill of Rights Circles — first reading packet

Neighbors who want to learn the Bill of Rights start here. A Circle reads primary sources together — the National Archives Bill of Rights text and the live National American Citizen Association Amendment pages — then talks about what the paper says. Educate with the document. Empower with rights fluency. Choose how to engage as a citizen. Circles are study groups; they are not a political party chapter.

Start every Circle (and every solo reader) at the hub:
The Bill of Rights

Primary source (open beside the hub):
National Archives — Bill of Rights transcript

First Circle spine (live pages):

  1. The Bill of Rights
  2. Amendment I — religion
  3. Amendment I — speech
  4. Amendment I — assembly and petition
  5. Amendment III
  6. Amendment V
  7. Amendment VI
  8. Amendment VII
  9. Amendment VIII
  10. Amendment IX
  11. Amendment X

How a first Circle uses this: Before the meeting, each person opens the hub and the National Archives transcript. In the meeting, read one live Amendment page (start with Amendment I religion, or the hub overview if the group is new). Discuss what the text says and what the page cites — not party talking points. End with Educate. Empower. Choose. and the next live page on the list.

Live now: Amendment II (Arms), Amendment III (quartering), and Amendment IV (searches and seizures) — open those civic pages with the Bill of Rights hub. For the press / propaganda-literacy lane, open Name the Device and the National Archives Bill of Rights transcript.

Find a Circle

Join and note Circles interest on the survey — we will follow up as Circles open.

Start learning today

You do not need a Circle to begin.

National American Citizen Association · Educate. Empower. Choose. · nacagroup.org
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