Cincinnati 9/12 Project is holding several one-day seminars during the months of February and March. The seminars are intended to be an outreach effort to people living in the tri-state area, and are designed to encourage them to become more connected with others living in the community. They also offer an opportunity to learn more about how this great country of America was formed and why.

Cincinnati 9/12 Project member Bob Galbraith will be teaching on “Principles of the Constitution” on Saturday, February 27 at the Wyoming Public Library. Like many who decide to become 9/12 members, Galbraith has become very concerned about the direction of the country and feels that there is quite a bit going on in Washington that is contrary to his sense of true American values.

Though he doesn’t have a career in politics, it has been an interest of his for over 25 years. And as a trained Geologist, he has had the privilege of working all over the US and has been to 8 foreign countries, so those experiences of various cultures add a richness and depth to his understanding and his teaching. Now that he is semi-retired and does some consulting in his field, he is in a place where he can share his insights from that long-time interest in politics and blend it with some of his favorite current resources. One specific book that he highly recommends is The 5000 Year Leap.

When asked why he would recommend that people take more of an interest in our constitution and how more information will benefit them now, his reply was, “Well, they really need to take a good look at whether they are interested to continue our free society.” He added that, “What I discuss is not so much the Constitution itself, but the things that our Founding Fathers were thinking about when they struggled with the issues of how to write a Constitution. They looked at a variety of government structures and ways that people had organized themselves for the past four or five thousand years. They wrote a document which really is something that is good for all ages because it was written mainly to deal with human nature.”

When asked if, in his opinion, whether he could see references to God throughout the Constitution, his reply was, “No, but I do see references to something greater than man. Whether it’s God or not, I have no idea. And I talk about this in the talk: my wife asked me a year or so ago if I believe in God and I said no. But having delved into this and studied this, there’s clearly something in existence bigger than man. And that helps to keep one more humble when one realizes that. Unfortunately, we’re dealing with arrogances with man, and that’s specifically what the Constitution was designed to protect us from.”

When asked what he would say to someone who thinks that an attorney is needed to understand the Constitution, his response was, “That’s absurd. The language isn’t that complicated and it wasn’t written by attorneys for deep consideration and argument in understanding. It was written as a fairly straightforward government document for the vast majority of people in the country to understand and to follow.”

When asked what he would say was on the minds of those who came up with the 10th amendment when they created that, Galbraith replied, “I think that they wanted to be sure that problems were dealt with on a level where the problems started. In other words, if you’ve got a problem with your family member, that problem should be dealt with on a family level. You don’t call in the State government to do that. And if you’ve got a problem between two cities, you should solve the problem between the two cities. You should solve a problem at the level where it develops, and that’s what the State’s rights people wanted to hold on to rather than having a larger government sent into all problems trying to push its own solutions. Not everybody’s the same. There were differences between the North and South at the time that the Constitution was written in terms of how they did things. In part that was because of climate, in part because of transportation among other things. So it made sense to deal with issues, as much as possible, at the local level.

Bob Galbraith will be teaching on “Principles of the Constitution” at:
Wyoming Public Library
500 Springfield Pike (Route 4)
Wyoming, OH. 45215
513-369-6014
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010
Time: 2:00pm

He will speak on that topic again at:
Hamilton Library
300 N. Third Street (and Buckeye)
Hamilton, OH. 45011
513-894-7156
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 1:30pm

Denise Waterman will speak about:

“Governments of the World”
Wyoming Public Library
500 Springfield Pike (Route 4)
Wyoming, OH. 45215
513-369-6014
Date: Monday, February 15, 2010
Time: 6:00pm

“The Constitutional Amendments, Your Rights as an American”
Hamilton Library
300 N. Third Street (and Buckeye)
Hamilton, OH. 45011
513-894-7156
Date: March 20, 2010
Time: 1:30pm

All presentations are free and open to the public. This is a wonderful opportunity for parents and teens or grandparents and teen grandchildren.

For more information: http://www.cincinnati912project.com