Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the Patriot Corps' LearnTheConstitution Program Course?
The Patriot Corps' Program Courses are designed to study the normal case, of allowable federal action. In contradistinction, the Patriot Corps' Premium Courses will study the abnormal case, of federal action which appears to violate the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Lastly, the Patriot Corps' Restoration Course will take us forward, into casting off a false rule deviously extended over us.
The Patriot Corps' LearnTheConstitution Program Course--also called our "Constitution 101" Course--teaches the originally-ratified U.S. Constitution, from the Preamble - Article VII.
The Patriot Corps, assuming there is interest, will pursue a LearnTheAmendments Program Course, to teach the amendments, separately (in the Constitution 201 Course).
2. How is the LearnTheConstitution Program Course laid out/disseminated?
There are three different formats for delivering the Patriot Corps' LearnTheConstitution Lessons.
The first option is by our hardcover LearnTheConstitution And ROAR book (sorry, there is no paperback edition).
The second option is our LearnTheConstitution AtYourOwnPace Program Course. The individual Lessons are available to watch, by mp4 videos, listen to, by mp3 audios, or read, by written pdfs. In this option, all Lessons are available at time of sign up, to proceed AtYourOwnPace.
The third option is our LearnTheConstitution InOneYear Program Course. This option sends a new email every two weeks for a year*, letting members know that a new Lesson has been released for them to watch, listen to, and/or read, giving them measured access, to keep from overwhelming them (but keeping the Lessons regularly before them, so they don't forget about it). Small, consistent steps ensure steady progress can be made, to learn the invaluable content, over a one-year timeframe.
All three options (the book and both Program Courses) all have the same content.
*The first and last months of the 12-month LearnTheConstitution InOneYear Program Course actually has weekly Lessons.
3. What about the Premium Courses and Restoration Course?
Premium Courses:
1. SNIFF (Seek New Information First & Foremost);
2. BARK (Build Awareness of Republican Knowledge);
3. GROWL (Go Restore Our Waning Liberty)
The Premium Courses examine history to learn the "abnormal" case, of how those who swear an oath to support the Constitution have cleverly been able to bypass or ignore their normal constitutional parameters, with impunity.
Restoration Course:
ROAR (Restore Our American Republic). The Patriot Corps ROAR-Path, discusses the pathway forward to Restore Our American Republic, Once and For All and perhaps even Happily-Ever-After.
The Patriot Corps Restorative Course looks to the future, to reveal the path forward, to cast off The Make-Believe Rule of Paper Tyrants, outside the election process.
The hour is late and time is running out. Therefore, the Patriot Corps intends to run stand-alone premium courses that highlight and expose the important information of how scoundrels succeed, in varying depth and intensity.
Students may take the Premium and Restoration Courses before, during, or after the Constitution 101 and 201 membership courses (ROAR may make the most sense after Constitution 101 and 201 membership courses). Of course, all Memberships, Premium Courses, and Restoration Courses, once taken in full, may be reviewed or retaken at any time thereafter, as Patriots desire, at no additional charge.
4. What is the cost of the Constitution 101 Program Course?
The cost of the LearnTheConstitution And ROAR book, the LearnTheConstitution AtYourOwnPace Program Course, and the LearnTheConstitutionInOneYear.com Program Course are each $60, although at time of order through the website, either program course and the book may be purchased together for $100 (after purchase of one option, the website will ask if you want to purchase the other, for $40 additionally).
5. How long do I have access to the Program Course?
Lessons may be viewed time and again, as often as desired, for as long as the Program Course is offered. Lessons are "dripped out" in the LearnTheConstitution InOneYear Program Course, and aren't available for viewing, until they are released (but once released, they remain available for reviewing, later). All the Lessons of the LearnTheConstitution AtYourOwnPace Program Course are available for viewing, at time of sign up.
6. Who else may have access to my Program Courses?
The entire household of the person buying the Program Courses, Premium Courses, or Restorations Courses has full access, and may take the courses at the same time, or at differing times.
That means if the family has children living under the same roof (or dependents living under another roof), for instance, paying the Program Course fee for the oldest child means that when younger children come of the appropriate age, they may also take the course, without additional cost or fees. And, of course, parents have full and reoccurring access at any time. Full-time college students still being claimed as tax deductions by their parents may also take the membership classes under their parents' membership. Children of split families may take the classes provided at least one household is or was a member and payment is current (or completely paid for).
See also FAQ #11, regarding Affiliate commissions and Household Members.
7. I would like to sign up for the course, but I can't fit the cost into my budget. Is there anything I can do to lower the cost?
Sorry, the lowest cost of the LearnTheConstitution book or Program Course is $60. However, by becoming Affiliates, Patriots may actually be able to earn money, at least if they successfully encourage new Patriots to join.
Please note that we pay out all Affiliate commissions through PayPal, which means in order for the Recruiter to get payments or credit for the referrals, that Recruiter will have to become a PayPal member and conform to PayPal's payout requirements. Sorry, but the Patriot Corps is not able to manually track or pay out commissions, outside of PayPal.
8. Course Advancement and Affiliate commissions
The Patriot Corps advances its mission by creating the content and providing the distribution structure, while Patriot Corps Affiliate Recruiters refer their contacts, to disseminate understanding of what Patriots face federally, within members' sphere of influence, to build up a corps of men and women working individually and together to Restore Our American Republic.
Copper Members--also called Caretakers--start at sign-up being able to earn 25% Affiliate commissions on all eligible digital Course products they sell through their Patriot Corps Affiliate link, after they become Patriot Recruiters.*
Silver Members--also called Sentinels--start at 40% commissions, on all eligible digital products they refer through their Patriot Corps Affiliate link, after they become Patriot Recruiters.*
And Gold Members--also called Guardians--start at 50% commissions, on all eligible digital products they refer through their Patriot Corps Affiliate link, after they become Patriot Recruiters.*
This is a reoccurring affiliate commission, meaning every payment made by a referred member makes, the Recruiter is again credited their earned commission, earning the Affiliate residual income.
While 25%, 40% and 50% Affiliate commissions are great, that's just the starting point. Finish all four Quarters of the Constitution 101 Program Course, and each tier of membership will thereafter earn another 10% affiliate commission on new sales!*
While the Affiliate commissions at all levels top out at 60%, Caretakers and Sentinels may also reach that commission rate, by taking our Constitution 201 Program Course and our Premium Courses.
Finish the LearnTheAmendmentsInSixMonths.com Constitution 201 Program Course and earn another 5%.
And, earn yet another 5% commission for completing our BARK Premium Course.
While that caps out Sentinels also at 60%, Caretakers may earn 10% additional commissions on our GROWL Premium Course, and another 5% yet on our Patriot Corps ROAR-Path Restoration Course!
That amounts to spectacular 60% possible Recruiter commissions, at all three membership levels, on all digital sales of Patriot Corps Courses and Memberships thereafter referred, once you've completed all of our Program and Premium Courses, on a residual basis, for as long as you and your referred Patriots maintain their memberships!
The Patriot Corps is willing to split with you the lion's share of all sales you refer, using your Affiliate link, if you just stick to referring our program, to help spread the word, and build up a corps of Patriots who learn what they need to know, to turn our country around.
Patriots don't even need to create anything, or invest in anything more than our courses (and, if you do it right, you could be putting money in your pocket even that first month of your membership (ending any further commitment of money).
* See Patriot Corps Recruiter Agreement Terms and Conditions for full details.
9. How can the Patriot Corps provide such generous Recruiter commissions?
The Patriot Corps Founder and President Matt Erickson spent many tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and many tens of thousands of hours (all while working his full-time "paying job," over a 35-year period), before he started this LearnTheConstitutionInOneYear.com Program Course, reading, researching and writing about Restoring Our American Republic.
So, he knows the roadblocks associated with deep commitments, knowing that there has to be a better way, to bring everyone else up to speed, that is quicker, easier, and cheaper, and if there isn't, then make that better way.
Because we Americans don't have the luxury of waiting decades for Patriots to get up to speed, to learn how clever scoundrels use the highly-unusual exception to all the normal rules of the Constitution, to do as they please, with impunity.
We have to put some plan in place, right now, and get all hands on deck, as soon as possible, and up to speed, to cast off The Make-Believe Rule of Paper Tyrants.
Erickson believes it is crucial that we develop the means and a path for patriots not only to learn the lost principles of our American Republic, but also a way to earn money while they learn and especially afterwards, as they push towards liberty.
The Patriot Corps Recruiter Program to "Learn and Earn" is the direct result of that belief and effort.
The Patriot Corps can advance its primary mission; Patriot Corps Recruiters earn money promoting Patriot Corps content that Matt Erickson has spent his adult life accumulating and refining; and new prospects increase the likelihood of being found and brought into the fold.
The Patriot Corps will seek to provide the content and structure, while Patriot Corps Recruiters provide their contacts to extend that content within their sphere of influence.
10. Affiliate commissions--How do they work?
Affiliated Patriot Corps Recruiters earn 25% affiliate commissions on all members they personally sign up as Members of the LearnTheConstitutionInOneYear.com Program Course, AND on all Premium Courses their referred Member(s) purchase(s), that are purchased THROUGH and using THE RECRUITER'S PRIVATE ELECTRONIC REFERRAL KEY.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Recruiters MUST use their private electronic referral key provided by Patriot Corps, LLC for automatically tracking all referrals (each link is active for 30 days [meaning the Affiliate will need to send another link afterwards, if the potential member doesn't join within 30 days of receiving the link]). The Patriot Corps does NOT use discounts or coupons and is wholly unable to track referrals manually.
Neither can the Patriot Corps, LLC retroactively award affiliate commissions where either the Recruiter either did not properly link the offer or where the referred new member did not use the Recruiter-provided link to sign up and become a member.
Members refusing to agree to abide by Patriot Corps final determinations involving Recruiter commissions will be dropped from the membership, which effectively ends their Recruiter status, leading to a forfeiture of all undistributed commissions (see Requirement #2).
2. Members remain commission-earning Recruiters for as long as they maintain their membership as a Guardian, Sentinel or Caretaker.
Ending Memberships terminates the Affiliate Recruiter status, and all undistributed commissions cease and terminate upon lapsed membership following a 30-day grace period and two extensions (which extensions involve paying additional fees). See Patriot Corps Recruiter Agreement Terms and Conditions for more information.
3. All monetary payouts will be paid out to Patriot Corps Recruiters through PayPal. Therefore, all Recruiters desiring payouts will have to become PayPal members and provide the information PayPal requires in order to send out payments, including a Social Security number or Federal Employer Identification Number.
11. Affiliate commissions--Households
When a family member signs up for any Patriot Corps Courses or Memberships, all directly-related (dependent) family members of that household are entitled to take that Program Course, Premium Course, or Restorative Course, at that time, or at any time thereafter. Also, any of them can retake the courses at any later time, without additional cost, for a refresher.
Together with that shared experience, however, comes shared affiliate commissions, being credited towards the primary family contact (the individual who signed up to the Membership/Recruiter status).
At this time, at least, the Patriot Corps doesn't have the means or ability to attribute shared commissions individually, except as individuals individually sign up.
12. Why isn't the Patriot Corps an IRS 501 (c) (3) non-profit, tax-exempt Charitable Organization?
First of all, Patriot Corps Founder and President Matt Erickson did start (in 2004) and continues yet to run the Foundation For Liberty, which is an IRS 501 (c) (3) non-profit, tax-exempt charity (www.FoundationForLiberty.org).
So, there is a non-profit organization already pursuing the same end, although through differing means, as the for-profit Patriot Corps, for those who prefer to use that structure and tax-deductible contributions (please know that the Foundation does NOT pay out affiliate commissions to any affiliates for donations received by the Foundation secured with help of the affiliate [or any other purpose, either]).
Again, Matt Erickson specifically sought to establish the for-profit Patriot Corps to provide patriots the means to earn money while they work to spread the vital message of pulling back the curtain on the deception federal scoundrels use to bypass and ignore their normal constitutional parameters with impunity.
The Patriot Corps Recruiter Program is central to Erickson's plans to establish the Patriot Corps as a growing corps of men, women and even children, who pursue individual liberty and limited government, outside the election process, to create a win-win-win situation, for the Patriot Corps, Recruiters, and new members who find out about the Patriot Corps' offerings from more people.