The Vital Expedition focuses to do what John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the 1790’s, suggested that we all do as citizens and that was to study our constitution and laws continually. It is our desire to do just that; present information to anyone interested. Discourse is a lost commodity today. There is so much to learn from our founders and from those they studied that we would do well to know a fraction of what they knew.

 

The name chosen for this site reveals the intentions as well. “The Vital Expedition” The article “the” instead of “a” conveys something explicit, more precise, and defined. The word “Vital” transmits something necessary, serious, and urgent and as fast as things are moving in this country today, politically, culturally, and socially, etc., the more we’d better get off the couch and become involved. Finally, “Expedition” communicates a journey that is for a specific purpose, an exploration, a quest, and a battle or war. The more we learn about the founding men and women in areas not only of politics but their biographies, their struggles and perseverance, their faith and principles that they often suffered and died for to realize the dream of freedom, the more encouraged we will be to not let all those who came before us sacrifice in vain.

 

One of the beginning settlements in the new land of America had a leader named William Bradford who called the people of Plymouth “steppingstones”. They all foresaw themselves as the beginnings of a people who would one day, through their descendants, become a people free and strong because of the founding that they laid. Our history is rich with committed people.

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