What we do

Now

We listen and we explain. Through social studies and surveys, online and in the street, we learn what legal immigrants actually understand about American civic life. Then we say it in plain language: how Congress, the President, and the courts share power, why that split exists, and what the Constitution protects. We teach that this country is a republic under law, not a pure democracy of majority will. We teach that immigration is not a right. It is a privilege graciously offered by the host country. All immigrants must respect that.

YouTube, a podcast, essays, and blogs are how we teach that civic order, including a color-blind republic and equal protection under law. We oppose sorting people by race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. We do not list channels or publications here until they exist.

A republic, if you can keep it

The United States is a republic under a written Constitution. It is not a pure democracy, in which a majority may do as it pleases. In that older sense, democracy means majority rule. A republic means the public thing: the law. Rights in the Constitution are not subject to 51 percent. A unanimous jury is a small picture of the same idea. Some questions are not a simple vote.

The Constitution does not use the word democracy. Madison, Hamilton, and Adams warned that pure democracies are turbulent and short-lived. When Franklin left the Convention he was asked what they had made. A republic, he said, if you can keep it.

Limited government is how rights are kept. A government bound by law, that protects persons, makes people freer. Anarchy is not freedom. On that spectrum the Constitution sits with limited power that protects rights, not with a total state.

Rome is the caution. It began as a republic with limited law. People forgot what that meant. Subsidies, controls, and the habit of voting benefits to themselves turned the republic toward democracy, then toward oligarchy and Caesars. That is a civic warning, not a campaign.

Grants and scholarships

We spend our own money. We do not raise it here. Grants are up to $10,000 per person or organization per year. Scholarships are up to $5,000 per student per year. Those figures are ceilings, not a pledge that every inquiry is funded. The awards go out. They do not come in. This is not a fundraising page, and it is not a political fund.

The condition is agreement, published. Recipients are people and organizations who agree with the foundation’s civic teaching and who put that agreement in public: essays, voice recordings, or videos that teach the same civic order we teach. A republic under law, not a pure democracy of majority will. Limited government. Equal protection as it is written. A color-blind republic that treats people as individuals. We oppose sorting people by race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. The work has to reach an audience. Private agreement is not the grant.

We do not list audience thresholds on this site. We do not publish an application form, a portal, a deadline, or a scoring method. Those details are not here yet. Until they are, the only public instruction is to write to info@lisun.org.

We do not fund campaigns, candidates, protests, or movements. We are not a political organization. Money that teaches the civic order is not money that tries to capture it.

Later

In time we will offer classes on U.S. history and the Constitution for legal immigrants. Those classes do not exist yet, and we do not publish a schedule.

Inquiries may be sent to info@lisun.org.

What we do not do

We do not do politics. We do not endorse campaigns or candidates. We do not support protests or movements. Civic education is not activism.

We do not help immigrants with the immigration process, obtaining a green card, or passing an immigration or citizenship test. Civic education may indirectly prepare someone for the civics and history part of a test, but we are not a test-prep or legal-immigration service.

Immigration is not a right. It is a privilege graciously offered by the host country. All immigrants must respect that.