Mayo to present Delaware State Constitution Course in Seaford

When Larry Mayo was handed a pocket U.S. Constitution back in 2004, he did what most of us wouldn’t do: he actually read it. “Oh my God!” he remembers saying. “We’re not following this!”

Thus began Mayo’s journey into the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution: what it says, what it means, and how far the nation has come from the document that defines America.

Mayo, a remodeling contractor by trade at the time, heard on a Rush Limbaugh program that Hillsdale College in Michigan offered free online courses on the Constitution. He took two classes: Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution; and Constitution 201, a continuation of 101. A decade later, Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher told Mayo about another Constitution course offered by the Institute on the Constitution (IOTC), presented by founder Michael Peroutka, and being taught at the Sam Yoder Farm near Milford. Mayo took the course not once, but three times.

Shortly afterward, Mayo began teaching the course for IOTC. Like most instructors at IOTC, he taught as a volunteer. He has taught the course for “well over a decade,” he said.

When, in 2025, IOTC merged with a Florida-based non-profit called Self-Evident and changed its name to The American View (TAV), Mayo became the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director for TAV. 

Mayo himself wrote the Delaware State Constitution Course for TAV in 2020. Using such resources as the Delaware Constitution, the Delaware Archives, books by Kim Rogers Burdick (Revolutionary Delaware: Independence in the First State, c2016) and Randy Holland, Former Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (The Delaware Constitution of 1987: The First Hundred Years, c1997,), Mayo created a 12-week course on our state’s constitution.

Mayo has graduated approximately 150 people from the DE Constitution class thus far. Finding that many people weren’t willing to commit to a 12-week course, he has condensed the course into a seven-week class, meeting in various public locations. He is currently offering the Delaware Constitution Course at the Stargate Diner in Seaford on Sussex Highway. 

Though the class began Wednesday, Mayo said it’s not too late to join the class. The course will run for a total of seven weeks on Wednesday nights, from 6:30-9 p.m. The cost of the course is $10, though the price for future classes is subject to change. The accompanying book is $50; however, the digital version is available online for $10 at https://www.theamericanview.com.

Mayo’s goal in teaching the constitution courses, he said, is to “Get enough people educated to hold elected officials accountable to their oath of office and to uphold the Constitution of Delaware and the United States.”  Mayo is concurrently teaching the U.S. Constitution Class in Lewes. Older students and adults taking the U.S. Constitution course are presented with such astounding facts as: no law in the United States may legally contradict the principles of the U.S. Constitution, according to Article IV Clause 2 of the Constitution (often called the Supremacy Clause).

For more information on current and upcoming classes, contact Larry Mayo at la***@*************ew.com. The Stargate Diner is located at 23415 Sussex Hwy, Seaford. You can register in person at the DE Constitution class.