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STEP 1: Study and Comprehend the Following Documents:

  • Bill of Rights
  • Articles of Confederation 
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Magna Carta
  • Constitution of the United States of America - notice Article 6 which outlines the debt the Constitution was created to settle
  • The Art of Passing the Buck Vol. One and Two

STEP 2: MEET FOR REGULAR, IN-PERSON MEETINGS

  • Gather on a regular basis, and assist each other with learning the above documents and what it means to be self-governing! Be sure to gather in-person as often as possible (weekly, bi-weekly), or as often as necessary to address the learning and needs of your county.
  • Once you have three people in your assembly, your meetings can become more formal. Because you are not yet a lawful assembly, you will need to set up a PMA (private membership association) that will assist you in learning how to run a lawful assembly, once your group gets to that point. Therefore, any business of the assembly should be focused on education, only.
  • A guide to use for running your meetings is Roberts Rules of Order. (See the attached "Roberts Rules Made Simple".)
  • Take official minutes of each meeting. (See sample minutes attached.) 
  • Members should bring two others with them to each meeting, growing the assembly.

STEP 3: PUT YOUR COUNTY ASSEMBLY INTO A PMA (GROUP TRUST) SO THAT IT IS PROTECTED FROM THE DE FACTO!

  • Determine your PMA name
  • Design your logo, and then you’ll publish a notice of the PMA’s existence in your local newspaper – in the ‘legal’ section. It MUST be published in the legal section so that you can get a certification of publication. Please reach out to the state assembly for assistance, when you are ready to publish it.
  • Create some kind of blog or website so that you can post things and information on it.
  • Your group will need to decide who will be the grantor of your PMA (trust). This is the person that will write the membership agreement and documents for the PMA. This person will also be tasked with determining who the PMA trustees will be. 
  • You can work on your by-laws after you’re set up. The Association of Inner Authority can assist with this task, if needed.

STEP 4: RUNNING YOUR PMA MEETINGS

  • When you have your assembly in a PMA, your trustees will be responsible for running the meetings. 
  • You will want to have a trustee for keeping records (Secretary), a trustee for keeping finance records and managing the money for the PMA (Treasurer), a trustee over conducting the meetings (moderators). As your PMA grows, you can assess the needs of your PMA and add trustees for things needed, or increase duties for the trustees to add things like IT, marketing, education, etc.

STEP 5: GROW YOUR ASSEMBLY

  • You want to have as many people as possible in your county, participating in the assembly. This will require each member inviting others to join each week.
  • Develop marketing campaigns for bringing people into your county assembly.
  • Strategize about how you can involve people in your county who are not in the PMA. This effort can be a wonderful opportunity to practice noticing your county government and spreading the word to those in your county about self-governance and principles of equity.

STEP 6: BEGIN GIVING NOTICE TO THE LEGISLATURES AND AGENCIES IN YOUR COUNTY AND STATE