Some 60 years ago, business leaders were concerned that voters were losing an understanding of the principles and purposes of the American political process. Facilitated by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in 1959, a study guide was produced titled “The Action Course in Practical Politics” and group course study was started across the country. It was designed to help individuals who were interested in knowing more about politics, or might wish to personally become a candidate.
A newer “Political Action Course” began about 2010 by editing the old course content for the modern Political Action Course. If you are interested in participating in the full course, let us know.
Online Political Action Course
NOTICE: This online presentation is of the course eBook only.
The online CP-USA Political Action Course is presented in ebook form to CP-USA voting members at no charge. If you wish to read the course, simply register as a “User” on the Political Action Course website. If you have any problem registering, just email us at pacrequest@cpartyusa.com and ask to read the course. Although this version of the Political Action Course is a read only version, you may later decide to become a Conservative Party USA accredited “Political Action Leader.”
Invitees for accreditation are handled on a person-to-person basis by our CP-USA course proctors. An accredited “Political Action Leader” subject themselves to testing and field exercises all under the supervision of course proctors. For any questions, email: proctors@cp-usa.com
CP-USA members have an Online Learning module in their member area, or it can be provided by CP-USA by email.
This photo was taken of a representative group about 60 years ago.
Conservative Party USA is actively advertsing for an educational format to present the Political Action Course nation-wide as was done those many years ago. There can be a business model attached to this goal. Each course participant has a cost attached to the course. This cost was covered by donors when the course was first presented.
If there is interest by anyone, please write us for more details. Almost all the course material is available in the old presentation and in an present day form..
The online course is available to full voting members at no cost.
The original course involved eight group meetings, called Workshops, usually in the evening, with about 12-15 participants and a Discussion Leader. The workshops were two hours in length although they usually went beyond that time frame as excitement was built from the discussions. The original course manual is long out of date, and in error in some areas relative to today’s political arena. It was the idea of Sam Gallo, a local Louisiana businessman, who once took the course and became a workshop leader to remove or revise out of date content and errors, but not destroy the “totally bipartisan” educational purpose of the course, and then present and conduct the revised political action workshops as a public service.
In many cases, courses were held in meeting rooms of a corporate sponsor. In other cases, restaurant meetings rooms, and Chamber of Commerce meeting rooms.
A corporate sponsor is any business where the owner(s) are mindful of the need to educate the public on the rights and duties of citizens, and the citizen’s ability to advance good government by having a knowledge of political action. The sponsor will pay for the modest cost of course materials, and permitting an employee to be a course moderator.
The first and important need in being a course moderator is having a solid understanding of our constitutional republic form of government. Beyond that, moderation of the Political Action Course would be much similar to conducting a church or school group of like size.