[The paragraphs below are operating rules to be included within the formal ATIPA and STIP bylaws, presently under construction.]
 

1.  Purposes and Means

 1. To create, perform, and perfect a scientific testing program aimed at elevating the honesty and the dedication to the U.S. Constitution of the legislative bodies - the U.S. Congress and the state legislatures - which define the policies and the laws governing the United States.
 2. To identify to the public those candidates for public office who take and successfully pass a VSA examination in which they allege their intended honesty and support of the Constitution, as well as those candidates who decline to take or who fail such an examination.
 3. To build and maintain a Certified Examiner Corps and a network of state administrative organizations, all fully trusted by the public, to administer such VSA examinations and to present the results of these science-based tests to the public.

2.  General Provisions

 1. These Bylaw provisions shall apply to the American Truth in Politics Association (the national entity, hereinafter NTIP) and to the several affiliated State Truth in Politics Associations (the state entities, each hereinafter an STIP).
 2. Every effort will be made to prevent this combined Truth in Politics organization (hereinafter TIP) from becoming dominated or destroyed by persons of great wealth or power who may fear its outcomes.  Thus, if the NTIP organization is attacked and destroyed, the STIP organizations shall undertake to create a replacement NTIP entity.  Also, the STIP organizations will operate substantially independently of each other, so that the destruction of one will not significantly impact the operation of all the others.
 3. NTIP shall derive its support only from the dues of the STIP affiliates.  These affiliates shall derive their funding exclusively from their in-state registered voters, with no fee or donation accepted in excess of a prescribed maximum (e.g., $1000) from any individual over a fiscal year.  No contribution may be accepted to which restrictions are attached concerning how such funds are to be used.  No financial support may be accepted from any organization or any branch of government.
 4. Funds received by NTIP or an STIP shall be used only for services rendered in furtherance of ATIPA's purpose stated in its Articles of Incorporation.  No TIP funds shall be contributed to any political party, candidate, or campaign committee, or be used to influence federal, state, or local legislation.  Contributed funds shall not be permitted to accumulate (beyond a normal contingency reserve), but shall be spent within a reasonably short time after their receipt.
 5. The TIP association shall have no shareholders or other individuals having a personal or private interest in the resources of NTIP or an STIP, and no TIP resource shall be used for the private profit or selfish advantage of any individual.
 6. The names of individuals contributing to or purchasing the publications or other services of NTIP or STIP shall not be rented, sold, or given to any individual or other entity (except as may be required by the IRS to obtain or maintain tax exemption).
 

3.  NTIP Functions

 1. Establish a standard protocol for VSA testing of candidates for public office.  The questions to be asked, and the methods to be used in assigning examiners and in evaluating the resulting test materials, shall be applied uniformly throughout the country insofar as practicable.
 2. Establish a standard protocol for selecting, training (if necessary and practicable), periodically testing, and ultimately certifying candidate VSA examiners as Certified Examiners acceptable to NTIP for the purpose of performing VSA examinations of candidates for public office and of TIP administrative and testing personnel as required by the TIP bylaws.
 3. Establish a standard protocol for selecting, periodically testing, and accepting individuals as Voting Members of an STIP affiliate.  The acceptance of such local membership shall be communicated to and certified and archived by NTIP, upon which it shall be made available to all other STIP affiliates.
 4. Invite Voting Members of STIP affiliates to be interviewed and otherwise examined for selection as Voting Members of NTIP.  Such Voting Members shall in turn be empowered to nominate, examine, and elect from their own membership an NTIP Board of Directors.  In turn, the Board of Directors shall have the power, at its sole discretion, to appoint or remove from office the several operating officers of NTIP, including a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer.
 5. Publicize and make economically available to the public the standard relevant questions to be asked in VSA examinations of candidates for public office, of VSA examiners, and of NTIP and STIP administrative personnel.
 6. Archive for all historical purposes, and make such archives available to all STIP affiliates, the VSA examination data and data analyses of candidates for public office and of Voting Members, Boards of Directors, and officers of NTIP and of STIP affiliates.
 7. Help to create and maintain throughout the United States viable STIP organizations consonant with the provisions of the TIP bylaws.  NTIP shall have the power, upon the majority vote of its Voting Members and the concurrence of its Board of Directors, to dissolve any STIP affiliate which has become dysfunctional or nonfunctional, and to create its replacement.
 8. Tender to candidates running for President of the United States invitations to submit to the standard VSA testing, administer the test to those accepting it, and publicly report on the results of those tests, all of which shall be completed a few months prior to the first Presidential primary election, caucus, convention, or equivalent.
 9. Modify the TIP Bylaws only in accordance with the majority vote of the NTIP Voting Members so directing.
 

4.  STIP Functions

 1. Prior to primary elections in partisan contests, or the earliest election for candidates for non-partisan offices, invite all such candidates within the jurisdiction of the particular STIP to submit to the standard VSA testing.  For those accepting, organize and administer the tests, and submit the test materials to the Certified Examiners for analysis.  Announce the results of that testing, or the declination to be tested, to the electorate within the jurisdictional boundaries of the offices being sought, and to NTIP for archival purposes.
 2. Recruit Sustaining Members from voters within the STIP's own state.  An annual fee shall be required from such Sustaining Members, constituting the STIP's sole source of income. A portion of that fee shall be sent to NTIP for its maintenance, in accordance with the bylaws.
 3. From the Sustaining Membership, recruit Voting Members in accordance with the protocol established by NTIP.  The STIP Voting Members shall be empowered to examine, nominate, and elect from among its own members an STIP Board of Directors, which in turn will elect its officers, including a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer.
 4. At its discretion examine and appoint Chairmen of county TIP committees (hereinafter CTIP) to administer STIP functions within that smaller jurisdiction, including recruitment of Sustaining Members and the administration of VSA testing and reporting to the public.
 5. Publicize to its Sustaining Members, and to the general public within the jurisdiction of the particular STIP or CTIP, via meetings, publications, news conferences, web sites, etc., the testing status (NO- not offered, TO- test offered, TD- test declined, TA- test accepted, TF- tested & failed, or TP- tested & passed) of all elected public officials and all announced candidates for public office within the STIP or CTIP jurisdiction.
 6. Offer to waive the examination expenses for any candidate for public office who requests such assistance, and for whom such an expense is deemed by STIP to be a significant burden.  If the expense is to be borne by the candidate, the payment shall be made to STIP.  STIP shall always be responsible, and solely responsible, for paying the fees and expenses owed to the Certified Examiners who analyze the VSA tests.  An Examiner may never accept a payment or anything of value from a subject being tested.
 7. If, in the judgment of a majority of the STIP organizations, the NTIP organization becomes dysfunctional or nonfunctional, join with other STIP organizations to develop a course of action to create and emplace a replacement NTIP organization which will uphold the fundamental TIP purposes and means stated in the bylaws.
 
 

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