Core Civil Liberties Essential to Alternative Education

Quaqua affirms support for the core civil liberties that are of direct importance to the meaningful existence of alternative education.

It is the institutional sense of Quaqua that most alternative educators, and particularly most home educators, are committed to respecting and preserving the fundamental legal rights and liberties of all people with regard to their rights as adults to:


1) Direct the upbringing of their own biological child.
This liberty is protected in various respects in the United States Constitution by one or more of the following: Article I, Section 9, and the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments.


2) Engage in the free exercise of religion and the unrestricted development of a personal world view.
These liberties are protected in the United States by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.


3) Enjoy freedom of expression, meaningful petitioning of the government, free association, and a meaningful opportunity to vote for sovereign governmental representation.
These liberties encompass the right to study without the imposition of indirect controls or prior restraints over educational curriculum, including forced inspections of curriculum, reading lists, curriculum mandates, forced standardized examinations, or certification/licensing requirements for private teachers.

In the United States, these liberties are protected in various respects in the United States Constitution by one or more of the following: First, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.


4) Be free of unreasonable government searches or seizures of private property or people.
These liberties encompass enjoyment of the right of both adults and their minor children to reasonably engage in uninhibited, non-malevolent spatial movement and travel in various public places, at all times, throughout local municipalities and across state boundaries, except during a time of war or extreme emergency.

These liberties are protected in various respects in the United States Constitution by one or more of the following: Article I, Sections 9-10, and the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments.


5) Enjoy family autonomy in their own homes and in their efforts to meaningfully and reasonably defend their own custodial children from physical and non-physical dangers.
These liberties are protected in various respects in the United States Constitution by one or more of the following: Article I, Sections 9-10, and the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments.


6) Obtain due process and fair procedural processes for legal proceedings against them.
These liberties are protected in various respects in the United States Constitution by one or more of the following: Article I, Section 9, Clauses 2-3, Article I, Section 10, Clause 1, and the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments.


7) Be free from core legal and economic badges or incidents of involuntary servitude.
This liberty includes protection from denial of parental prerogatives, violations of bodily integrity, forced community "service," discriminatory denial of equal access to tax-supported entities or operations which afford core social services or programs to a relevant public, and impositions from the terrorism of unprincipled, arbitrary and capricious public mayhem.

Freedom from the badges and incidents of involuntary servitude is achieved in various respects in the United States Constitution by, inter alia, one or more of the following: Article I, Section 9, and the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Amendments.