A citizen-led framework for local sovereignty, parallel infrastructure, and community resilience. Eighteen seats covering every dimension of life that matters. Your family. Your community. Your terms.
Every major system — healthcare, education, finance, food, governance — is built to create dependency on institutions that don't share your values. The Council on Local Relations provides a counter-structure: eighteen domains of life where citizens can build parallel systems, develop real competency, and reduce their exposure to fragile supply chains and hostile bureaucracies.
Schools that don't teach what matters. Healthcare that treats symptoms, not causes. Financial systems designed to keep you in debt. The institutions your grandparents trusted have been hollowed out and repurposed.
One disruption and the grocery shelves empty. Your family's food security depends on systems you don't control, can't see, and can't fix. The same is true for medicine, energy, and essential goods.
Local government operates in the dark because no one is watching. School boards make decisions about your children without your input. The people with the most power over your daily life face the least accountability.
Sovereignty isn't about isolation. It's about having options when the systems you depend on fail — or turn against you.
The Council on Local Relations organizes sovereignty into eighteen seats across four tiers. The Board provides strategic direction. The Foundation builds prerequisites. The Mission carries philosophy into the community. The Amplifiers extend reach and sharpen execution.
Each seat is a team, not a person. A Seat Lead coordinates while team members share the workload based on their skills and schedules. Together, they form a body that can actually function — covering every dimension of life without burning out any single individual.
You don't need permission. You don't need funding. You need citizens willing to take responsibility for domains of life that matter — and build alternatives to the systems that have failed.
Start with five people who understand what's at stake. They don't need to fill all eighteen seats — one person can lead two seats while you recruit. Commitment matters more than credentials.
Each seat gets a Lead who coordinates the domain. Then recruit team members who cover specific responsibilities. A CPA reviews finances quarterly. A nurse advises The Physician. Three Watchman members split the meeting schedule.
Get Tier 1 right before chasing the Mission. Financial literacy. Legal awareness. Economic independence. Strong marriages. Everything else is built on this or it collapses.
The Council isn't just about watching institutions fail. It's about building alternatives. Homeschool co-ops. Food production networks. Health knowledge. Financial independence. Each seat builds something real.
The goal isn't to fix broken systems. It's to make them irrelevant by building better ones.
The Council on Local Relations is a framework anyone can deploy. Eighteen seats covering every domain that matters. Teams, not individuals. Parallel systems, not protests. No permission required.
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