John Adams, the 2nd President and signer of the Declaration of Independence, warned:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
He also counseled:
“The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge–I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”
We threaten our very Constitution when we condone immoral conduct by our elected and appointed leaders. Public respect and esteem toward public officials have fallen to a shameful level. The Constitution Party finds that a cause of this national state of disgrace is the deterioration of personal character among government leaders, exacerbated by the lack of public outcry against immoral conduct by public office holders.
PUBLIC TRUST
Our party leaders and public officials must display exemplary qualities of honesty, integrity, reliability, moral uprightness, fidelity, prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, self-restraint, courage, kindness, and compassion. If they cannot be trusted in private life, neither can they be trusted in public life.
THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT
It is imperative that members and nominated candidates representing the Constitution Party and its state affiliates recognize the importance of demonstrating good character in their own lives.
The closer civil government is to the people, the more responsible, responsive, and accountable it is likely to be.
The Constitution itself, in Articles I through VI, enumerates the powers which may be exercised by the federal government.
Of particular importance is Article I, Section 8, which delineates the authority of Congress. The federal government was clearly established as a government of limited authority. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution specifically provides that:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Over time, the limitations of federal government power imposed by the Constitution have been substantially eroded. Preservation of constitutional government requires a restoration of the balance of authority between the federal government and the states as provided in the Constitution itself and as intended and construed by those who framed and ratified that document.
We pledge to be faithful to this constitutional requirement and to work methodically to restore to the States and to the people their rightful control over legislative, judicial, executive, and regulatory functions that are not constitutionally delegated to the federal government.
We stand opposed to any regionalization of governments, at any level, which results in removal of decision-making powers from the people or those directly elected by the people.
“Garland Favorito, 40-year IT professional and co-founder of the Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA), as well as the elections director of the Constitution Party of Georgia discusses the Trump Initiative to secure American elections.”
Common decency and respect for others is becoming scarce in our society. One simple example is garbage thrown on the ground. Personal responsibility and common decency would dictate that every individual dispose of their own trash in the proper place.
We can lead in the efforts to restore our communities by considering the needs in our communities. Public spaces are often in a state of neglect because individuals make the assumption that it is someone else’s responsibility to take care of it. Government is an insatiable monster that will assume any role it can while consuming all the rights associated with that duty. The more government controls, the less individuals feel any sense of responsibility for those areas. The less individuals feel a sense of responsibility, the esteem they have for property, individuals, and the rights of others.
By considering those in our communities, and the rights and needs of those individuals, we can find many ways that we can take responsibility for our communities. We can clean garbage up from our public spaces and along our roads. We can get to know our neighbors and their specific needs. We can help our neighbors with yard work and home maintenance. We can run errands for those who can’t get around well. We can join local volunteer groups in their efforts to provide for and protect our communities.
The fix begins with individuals standing up and taking personal responsibility for their communities and showing others how it is done. It only takes one individual, doing very simple acts of personal responsibility for the community they live in, to start a movement back to a respectful society.
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Samuel Adams
Take back your rights by taking back responsibility.
“But if your spirit should revolt at this; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit enough to oppose tyranny, under whatever garb it may assume; whether it be the plain coat of republicanism, or the splendid robe of royalty; if you have yet learned to discriminate between a people and a cause, between men and principles — awake! — attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost, every future effort is in vain; and your threats then will be as empty as your entreaties now.”
“If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”
Samuel Adams
The events that led to the American Revolution began decades before a shot was ever fired. The Founders were faced with a period of discovering the length and breadth of their natural rights and deciding how best to protect them. The British subjects in the American colonies were proud to be British. They, generally, appreciated what England did for them and the status they had as British subjects. However, the abuses they experienced, especially after the French & Indian War, forced them to consider what rights were theirs and how to claim them.
As you read about the abuses from England through the 60s and 70s, and the colonial response to those abuses, you can see them sorting out what their rights mean to them. You can see them begin to more precisely define how the abuses violate their rights. You can see their responses to England become more direct and forceful as they gain confidence in their standing.
As the Founders grew in their experience and understanding of their rights, they became more resolute in their commitment to realize the fullness of those rights. This gave them the confidence to commit their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to achieving liberty.
We receive far more abuse from our governments today than they did in their day, yet many today do not take any time to understand their rights. They do not consider what constitutes a violation of those rights and why. They do not seriously contemplate what they are willing to do to defend individual rights from government abuse.
Do you understand your rights? Will you commit your life, your money, and your reputation to defending our individual rights?
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.”
There are many like-minded individuals out there. Get organized now for Liberty!
“If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.” – Samuel Adams
The strategy of tyranny is to convince individuals that they are alone and defenseless and unable to resist the oppression they are under. It is the goal of the tyrant to keep individuals living in fear and solitude so that no effective resistance can be organized.
Fortunately, we know that it only takes a few to organize resistance and be effective. “It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Everyone needs to reconnect with the community around them. We need individuals to understand that they can unify around liberty and resist tyrants. We need individuals to step up and organize their community to resist tyranny and meet the needs of the community. We need you.
“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv’d them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas’d them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath’d to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that “if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.” It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.” – Samuel Adams
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” – Samuel Adams
Tom DeWeese will be one of our featured speakers at the Constitution Party’s 2025 fall National Committee Meeting in Sparks, Nevada October 17-18. We will be sending out several emails from Mr. DeWeese, to provide our subscribers with some background for the topic he will be discussing with us at the NCM.
You can watch the second video from Mr. DeWeese linked below, or read the rest of the email for the information provided in the video.
They told me if I took the red pill I would be able to see reality – the truth of what is really going on around us. Well, I just happened to have a red pill, and I took it. Suddenly there was a bright light almost blinding my eyes. Then, like traveling through time, I was rushing forward, I grew dizzy, and then, as my eyes cleared and I could stand in a steady manner, everything became crystal clear!
I could see that the American people, and their every action, are being ruled, regulated, restricted, licensed, registered, directed, checked, inspected, measured, numbered, counted, rated, stamped, censured, authorized, admonished, refused, prevented, drilled, indoctrinated, monopolized, extorted, robbed, hoaxed, fined, harassed, disarmed, dishonored, fleeced, exploited, assessed, and taxed to the point of suffocation and desperation.
And then, more details started shooting out like fireworks! Policies. Politicians. Pronouncements. Power grabs. Everyday government, at all levels, was growing more out of control, more intrusive in our personal lives, more of a threat to private property – all in total and flagrant disregard of the expressed will of the electorate.
And here’s an unexpected, but shocking truth standing right before us all.
Freedom’s enemy today is already in your house, controlling how you live — and you don’t notice it. The enemy is already in your mind, controlling how you think – and you don’t notice that either. That’s all because of a simple phrase that controls all public policy today – “That’s just the way it’s done – everyone is doing it this way.” We accept that, and the thought process ends.
Those behind it are driving toward their goal of global control. And they have figured out a way to get us to voluntarily surrender our liberties — and actually help THEM control YOU.
Now, what could be such a powerful force that can get the population to help destroy their own culture and liberty, leading to personal destruction?
Fear. That is the weapon. Fear of what? The fear of Environmental Armageddon!
This tactic has given the globalist Left the ability to shoot down any opposition. “It doesn’t matter how many rights you think you have, if you don’t have a planet to stand on.” Wow!
Nearly every policy coming out of every level of government today is based on the excuse of combating Climate Change. The weapon to combat such a threat is called Sustainable Development.
In reality Sustainable Development is simply the trigger word designed to get you to voluntarily surrender your liberties. Today it’s used everywhere, to define farming practices, energy policy, manufacturing, and how you live your life. If it’s not “sustainable” it must be stopped.
Sustainable. Sustainable. Sustainable. People hear that word, and their eyes glaze over and they comply.
Every time you hear the word SUSTAINABLE understand that it has nothing to do with protecting the environment – it’s the actual blueprint to subvert representative governments to global control.
To fully understand what a massive threat this is to everything in your life, the very best description of Sustainable Development was provided by one of its most powerful opponents — The late Rosa Kori, of Democrats Against Agenda 21. She said,
“UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all information, all energy, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL!
This is the tool designed to change our culture of freedom.
Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center.
“I sacrificed every private consideration and personal enjoyment to the earnest and pressing solicitations of those who saw and knew the alarming situation of our public concerns, and had no other end in view but to promote the interest of their Country; and conceiving that under those circumstances, and at so critical a moment, an absolute refusal to act, might, on my part, be construed as a total dereliction of my Country, if imputed to no worse motives.”
The level of sacrifice you are willing to make to shows your level of commitment. People’s lives demonstrate what they believe in and the depth of that belief. In other words, talk is cheap.
The Founding Fathers committed “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to the cause of Liberty. These were not idle words. The Foundersliterally put their lives at risk and spent their own money to achieve limited government and the greatest freedom for themselves and their families.
“But I will not bear the Reproaches of my Children. I will tell them that I studied and laboured to procure a free Constitution of Government for them to solace themselves under, and if they do not prefer this to ample Fortune, to Ease and Elegance, they are not my Children, and I care not what becomes of them.”
What is a Citizen? In 1789, David Ramsay published A dissertation on the manner of acquiring the character and privileges of a citizen of the United States. In it he states that “Subject is derived from the latin words, sub and jacio, and means one who is under the power of another; but a citizen is an unit of a mass of free people, who, collectively, possess sovereignty.” Citizens are part owners in their government and the public functionaries work for them.
Public functionaries derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. The just power given to our public functionaries is to to secure these certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty and Private Property.
When government shifts from securing our individual rights to taking our individual rights, it becomes the very thing it was created to protect us from. What is worse, we are paying for it to violate our rights.
A Citizen takes personal responsibility for the public functionaries in the government which that Citizen owns! When public functionaries do wrong, they need corrected. When they are not sure what they should do, they may need advice. Above all, public functionaries need the accountability of having their boss (YOU) attending public meetings to check in on them.
Make sure you are getting to your municipal and school board meetings in your area. Get organized with others in your area so that you can keep up with what is going on by sharing the load with other Citizens.
“Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.”
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, page 3.
Keeping up with your legislators is easier than you think. It is important to find out what they are working on and what bills they are considering so that you can better direct their efforts. If your representatives do not hear from you, they will do whatever they wish to do.
Let your representatives know when they are not doing something right or when they shouldn’t be doing something at all. Tell them you appreciate when they do follow the U.S. Constitution and your State Constitution. Let them know when you have expertise or insight to share with them.
Above all, keep in contact with them. Once they know that you are following what they are doing and sharing that information with others, your representatives may be more inclined to respond positively to your suggestions and take appropriate action.
Following are the Congressional and State Legislature sites you can use to track what your representatives are doing. There are also other sites which may require you to purchase subscriptions and or payments to make the process smoother and more efficient.
The Constitution Party does not guarantee the accuracy of any site, nor do we promote or endorse any site over another.
