He has always taken a keen interest in the nation's founding, and delves deeply into the history of government, economics, politics and war. His central interest is the prosperity enjoyed by a free society. Rodney took time out from his practice in the 1980s to help the freedom effort in Nicaragua. In 1992 he was appointed to the California Republican Party's State Central Committee, passing important resolutions at their convention. These were successful in giving the Republican Senators a citizen's bandwagon to jump onto, in blocking legislation, regardless of the Republican established leadership. Mr. Nelson has his eye on just this sort of effort on a national level to re-establish the Constitution as it was originally written and meant. This is one small piece of that effort