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Phillips played an instrumental role in the founding of the Religious Right. He and fellow conservatives [[Richard Viguerie]], known as the innovator of direct mail in the 1964 political campaign,  [[Paul Weyrich]] of [[The Heritage Foundation]], and Terry Dolan (1950-1986), founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, urged the Reverend [[Jerry Falwell]], pastor of the large Liberty Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, to form in 1979 the since disbanded [[Moral Majority]]. He later founded  the [[Council for National Policy]] with another conservative minister, [[Tim LaHaye]], a group akin to the liberal [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502114628/https://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6949&abbr=cs_|title=Who Is The Council For National Policy And What Are They Up To? And Why Don't They Want You To Know?|publisher=Americans United |accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

Phillips played an instrumental role in the founding of the Religious Right. He and fellow conservatives [[Richard Viguerie]], known as the innovator of direct mail in the 1964 political campaign,  [[Paul Weyrich]] of [[The Heritage Foundation]], and Terry Dolan (1950-1986), founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, urged the Reverend [[Jerry Falwell]], pastor of the large Liberty Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, to form in 1979 the since disbanded [[Moral Majority]]. He later founded  the [[Council for National Policy]] with another conservative minister, [[Tim LaHaye]], a group akin to the liberal [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502114628/https://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6949&abbr=cs_|title=Who Is The Council For National Policy And What Are They Up To? And Why Don't They Want You To Know?|publisher=Americans United |accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

 

===U.S. Taxpayers Party/Constitution Party===​

==U.S. Taxpayers Party/Constitution Party==

 

Phillips was one of the founders of the U.S. Taxpayers Party , which changed its name in 1996 to the Constitution Party. Phillips first campaigned for president in 1992, when he refused to support the re-election of George H. W. Bush in the race against [[Bill Clinton]] of Arkansas. He finished in seventh place in the popular vote with 43,369 votes  (0.04 percent).<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1992&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0 "1992 Presidential General Election Results"],  uselectionatlas.org.</ref>​

Phillips was one of the founders of the U.S. Taxpayers Party , which changed its name in 1996 to the Constitution Party. Phillips first campaigned for president in 1992, when he refused to support the re-election of George H. W. Bush in the race against [[Bill Clinton]] of Arkansas. He finished in seventh place in the popular vote with 43,369 votes  (0.04 percent).<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1992&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0 "1992 Presidential General Election Results"],  uselectionatlas.org.</ref>​

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