By this Charter, the Governing Council is
directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and
freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall
live by and what imposts they shall endure.»