... to the Concord Resolution, a citizens initiative dedicated to the healing of our financial system and, thereby, to the revival of our fate and fortunes as a nation.

The means for accomplishing this goal is through the revitalization of our infrastructure, our very foundations.

The accompanying pages introduce the Concord Resolution. We invite you to begin at the beginning with the Resolution/Warrant Article itself, which we encourage you to consider adapting and adopting in your own towns and cities.

The resolution is followed by an Overview of the issue.

The summary leads, in turn, into a piece that contrasts, step by step, Public vs. Private Financing of our public works.

An Historic Backdrop puts the "Concord Resolution" in a broader historical context, suggesting that it is All-American in the truest sense of the word.

While we trust that a good many of your questions will be answered by the above documents, undoubtably others will arise. Accordingly, we refer you further to the Questions & Answers. They address, directly, those concerns most readily raised in response to the proposal for the public creation and issuance of money: a) the dangers of such "fiat" money; b) the importance of gold backing for the dollar; c) the role of the Federal Reserve; d) the politicizations of monetary authority; e) the tendency of politicians to spend, to name but a few subjects.

Finally, appreciating that these "monetary" issues are not straightforward, we invite you to turn to the column – "New View on Money" – in which the foregoing considerations are worked thoroughly through (kneaded like dough) toward an ever greater grasp and understanding of the subject.

As President John Adams notes, the mastery of monetary/money matters is vital to our well-being as individuals and as a nation. It presents us with what, we suggest, is the central problem/challenge/OPPORTUNITY of our age.

"All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from defects of the Constitution or Confederation; not from any want of honor or virtue, as much as [emphasis added] downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."

The aforementioned pages seek to illumine this subject. We invite your best thoughts in response.