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Month: September 2025

  • What the CP is doing Around the Country

    What the CP is doing Around the Country

    The Better way

    The fall 2025 National Committee Meeting & Issues Conference, October 17-18 in Sparks, Nevada is right around the corner! If you have not registered for this event yet, make sure you do before the early bird price is gone. The Nugget hotel has extended our special group pricing through October 2nd to give our members the best opportunity to attend this great event. These meetings are an important time of connecting with members from other States and collaborating, strategizing, and encouraging one another.

    The spring 2026 National Committee Meeting & Issues Conference will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 15-16. This will be a special event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. There will be historic tours and many great speakers. Start planning your trip now, as there are many historic places to visit around this event.

    Around the Country

    We currently have a couple of States preparing to request formal affiliation with the national party. The State of Indiana was recently affiliated at the spring National Committee Meeting. We have several more States where individuals are organizing to begin the launch of a Constitution Party in their State.

    In States that have been with us for years, we are also seeing growth. Pennsylvania and Florida are adding new County Committees. Hawaii has secured enough signatures to regain ballot access for the next several elections. North Carolina is beginning their big push to regain ballot access for the next couple of elections. If you would like to assist North Carolina in their efforts, you can donate or volunteer on their website.

    In light of many recent events, people everywhere are looking for a better way for our county. They are looking for a political party that they can be proud to be a part of. They are looking for a community of like-minded individuals who will support one another. They are looking for limited government and a return to freedom, liberty, and individual rights. If you know someone who is looking, let them know that . . .

    There Is A Better Way →

    If you would like to donate to support national efforts to build new State parties, help our States get ballot access, or spread the word about The Better Way, there is much to be done. If you would like to get involved in the work in your State, reach out now and our leaders will find ways for you to help in these efforts.

  • Press Releases

    Press Releases

    Constitution Party National Committee to Convene in Sparks Nevada, 17 – 18 October 2025

    Semi-Annual Fall Meeting to be held at the Nugget Casino Resort hotel

    The Constitution Party is pleased to announce that the Independent American Party of Nevada is hosting the fall gathering of Constitution Party leadership from across the nation.

    Party business, network-building, and presentations will fill the two-day conference.

    Friday night’s Keynote Speaker will be constitutional expert Robert Brown.

    Public is invited to attend Friday and Saturday. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets.

  • The Constitution Is Signed!

    The Constitution Is Signed!

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    The U.S. Constitution is signed September 17, 1787

    The signing of the U.S. Constitution, by the delegates of the Convention of 1787, begins its long journey to ratification. The delegates had met for months creating a new government in secrecy. It was now being sent on to the Congress with the recommendation to send it on to the States for ratification.

    But ratification was not a foregone conclusion. The Convention had created a new constitution rather than attempt to modify the old one to cure the problems facing our States. The Framers created a confederated republic using fundamentals from other systems. The public were faced with a new animal, and needed time to explore it, have it explained, and have questions answered.

    The debates that raged through the States, in newspaper and flyers and in the ratification conventions, provide us with many insights into the views and understandings that Americans had of the new document.
    It took nine months for the required nine States to ratify the new constitution and it took nearly two and a half years to get all thirteen States to ratify it.

    Today we have people pushing for another convention to open up the U.S. Constitution for changes; great and small. The Constitution Party opposes these attempts that put the constitutional protections of our natural rights at risk, and we encourage everyone to contact their State legislatures to tell them to refuse to go along with such efforts. We also encourage those in States that have made application or passed resolutions, to contact their State legislatures to call for a recission.

    Constitution Party Platform: Constitutional Convention

    Letter of the President of the Federal Convention, Dated September 17, 1787, to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution. In Convention, September 17, 1787.

    Sir,

    We have now the honor to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most adviseable.

    The friends of our country have long seen and desired, that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union: But the impropriety of delegating such extensive trust to one body of men is evident-Hence results the necessity of a different organization.

    It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all: Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.

    In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible.

    That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be expected; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish.

    With great respect, We have the honor to be, Sir,

    Your Excellency’s most obedient and humble servants,

    GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.

    By unanimous Order of the Convention.

    His Excellency the PRESIDENT of CONGRESS.

    Source:
    Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States.
    Government Printing Office, 1927.
    House Document No. 398.
    Selected, Arranged and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill

    Source: Avalon Project

    (1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894) pp. I, 2. Back

    (2) From Washington’s copy of the Journal of Congress (Vol XII, p. 164). Back

  • Freedom of Speech: The Early Years

    Freedom of Speech: The Early Years

    National Chairman, Justin Magill

    John Peter Zenger Found Not Guilty!

    In 1735, John Peter Zenger was found “not guilty” of seditious libel against the Governor of New York. The Royal Governor of New York, William Crosby, went after John Peter Zenger, one the few skilled printers in the colonies, because of the things printed against the governor in the New-York Weekly Journal, the newspaper where Zenger was a printer. Zenger’s attorney, Andrew Hamilton, argued that Zenger should not be found guilty if what he printed was true. While this was not a defense allowed under the seditious libel laws at the time, the jury came back with a verdict of not guilty.

    This case and the outcome of it, laid much groundwork for the American Revolution.

    The rights to free speech and freedom of the press were being limited by the British government and dissenters were being targeted. Blackstone, later in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, supported criminal punishment for libel without regard for truth. “For the same reason it is immaterial with respect to the essence of a libel, whether the matter of it be true or false.” However, the Letters of Cato gave a different sentiment about free speech:

    “The exposing therefore of publick wickedness, as it is a duty which every man owes to truth and his country, can never be a libel in the nature of things.”

    Cato’s Letters No. 32.

    Read the Zenger Trial story →

    “Men who injure and oppress the People under their Administration provoke them to cry out and complain; and then make that very Complaint the Foundation for new Oppressions and Prosecutions. I wish I could say there were no Instances of this Kind. But to conclude; the Question before the Court and you, Gentlemen of the Jury, is not of small nor private Concern, it is not the Cause of a poor Printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying; No! It may in its Consequence, affect every Freeman that lives under a British Government on the Main of America. It is the best Cause. It is the Cause of Liberty; and I make no Doubt but your upright Conduct, this Day, will not only entitle you to the Love and Esteem of your Fellow-Citizens; but every Man, who prefers Freedom to a Life of Slavery, will bless and honour You, as Men who have baffled the Attempt of Tyranny; and by an impartial and uncorrupt Verdict, have laid a noble Foundation for securing to ourselves, our Posterity, and our Neighbors, That, to which Nature and the Laws of our Country have given us a Right – The Liberty – both of exposing and opposing arbitrary Power (in these Parts of the World, at least) by Speaking and writing Truth.”

    Atty. Andrew Hamilton

    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

    Samuel Adams

  • A System of Government “Help” Control

    A System of Government “Help” Control

    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 third video from Mr. DeWeese linked below or read the rest of the email for the information provided in the video.

    Consider this…

    You are a poor minority living in a government housing project called “Affordable.” It’s all paid for by the tax dollars of mostly middle-income Americans.

    Included in still more government programs are monthly checks and coupons to supply food, free healthcare, free education, and let’s also throw in free cell phone.

    Does that not make us a generous nation? Are not the poor well cared for and satisfied? Aren’t the taxpayers proud of their contribution to the common good?

    The answer to every one of these questions is NO!

    First, consider these facts about that stipend income from the welfare check. Originally, it was called “assistance” and the purpose was to help out when the paycheck wasn’t quite covering needs.

    Then that system was changed, and the welfare check means you can’t hold a job as you are collecting that monthly check. If a recipient even tries to put some away in savings, just an attempt to get ahead, it is confiscated and possibly the welfare check stops. It’s no longer “assistance” during hard times. Now it’s control.

    Then there is that public housing situation. Here’s what it’s like to actually live in those government projects.

    In many cities these neighborhoods are drastically rundown in disrepair as lights, air conditioning, and appliances fail to work. The roof leaks, windows are broken, and the plumbing backs up.

    Trash around the grounds is in ever-growing piles, is rarely, if ever cleaned and hauled away. Don’t even think about any kind of yard work to create a place for the children to play.

    Worse, the residents live in fear of gang elements like MS-13 that have taken over the neighborhoods to rule as their territory. Pimps, pedophiles, and drug dealers prey on the children.

    And no matter how many times residents may ask for repairs, it never happens.

    Why are the conditions so bad in government-controlled housing? Government is a monopoly that has no incentive to be efficient. The taxpayers are forced to pay and the money rolls in so the politicians can puff out their chests over how generous THEY are in helping the less fortunate.

    Meanwhile, the management of these properties is by government bureaucrats with no personal stake in the projects. Their paychecks keep rolling in, no matter what happens to the properties they manage. Only private owners care about the condition of their property.

    In such an atmosphere, the inherent hopelessness leaves little room for making future goals for their lives. There is no way out once the system has a hold on you.

    By herding African Americans, other minorities, and low-income families like cattle, the government is committing them to a future worse than poverty. They have lost their rights, their choices, and their ability to excel through self-determination and personal growth.

    Yet, proponents of government’s fair housing want you to think that those favoring the programs are the compassionate ones, helping minorities to survive in an oppressive capitalist world of the rich. Essentially, fear is the common tactic used to keep minorities in their programs.

    Anyone who opposes their system of control and instead, argues sound economics and a system of equal opportunity, is accused of heartlessness and racism, determined to pull the plug on their lifeline.

    Tom DeWeese,
    President
    American Policy Center

    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.

  • CP In The News Weekly

    CP In The News Weekly

    Constitution Party of Florida gubernatorial candidate Brandon L. McIntyre: Florida governor race in 2026 election to replace Gov. Ron DeSantis

    Two Constitution Party of Pennsylvania candidates running for New Castle City Council positions: Off-party candidates seek local government seats | Local News | ncnewsonline.com

  • WELFARE

    WELFARE

    The Declaration of Independence declares:

    “all men … are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men …” 

    The Preamble of the US Constitution shows how these rights are to be secured, including: 

    “provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare”. 

    Two clear distinctions should be made here: 

    1. PROVIDE implies actively and financially-supporting.
    2. PROMOTE implies a more passive approach. For example, I’ll promote that we put on a grand feast, but I want you to provide it! 
    3. GENERAL Welfare is not the same as INDIVIDUAL Welfare.
    4. GENERAL Welfare would benefit the people generally. Individual Welfare targets a certain segment of society to benefit, such as the poor. 

    Providing Individual Welfare is NOT authorized in the Constitution. 

    God, who endows us with life, liberty, property, and the right to pursue happiness, also exhorts individuals to care for the needy, the sick, the homeless, the aged, and those who are otherwise unable to care for themselves. 

    America’s welfare crisis is government-induced. 

    Government social and cultural policies have undermined the work ethic, even as the government’s economic and regulatory policies have undermined the ability of our citizens to obtain work. 

    Charity and provision of welfare to those in need are not a Constitutional responsibility of the federal government. 

    Under no circumstances should the taxpayers of the United States be obligated, under penalty of law through forced taxation, to assume the cost of providing welfare for other citizens. 

    Neither should taxpayers be indentured to subsidize welfare for persons who enter the United States illegally. 

    The message of Christian charity is fundamentally at odds with the concept of welfare maintenance as a right. In many cases, welfare provisions by the Federal government are not only misdirected but morally destructive.

    It is the intended purpose of civil government to safeguard life, liberty, and property, not to redistribute wealth. Such redistribution is contrary to the Biblical command against theft. 

    We encourage individuals, families, churches, civic groups, and other private organizations to fulfill their personal responsibility to help those in need. 

  • WAGE AND PRICE CONTROL

    WAGE AND PRICE CONTROL

    The Declaration of Independence declares that the purpose of Government is “to secure these Rights”, these unalienable rights such as Liberty. 

    Note: Nothing in the Constitution, writings of the Founders, nor in logic, can imagine a God-given right to earn a specific wage or buy at a specific price. 

    We deny that civil government has the authority to set wages and prices; doing so is inconsistent with principles of individual liberty and the free market.

  • VETERANS

    VETERANS

    President George Washington stated: 

    “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportionate to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their country”. 

    The Constitution Party appreciates the contributions of our servicemen and veterans to the preservation of American freedom. We shall continue to recognize their contributions to the national welfare by providing equitable pay and benefits to our military personnel and generous health, education, and other benefits to veterans. 

    We vigorously resist the attempt by any government agency to nullify or reduce earned benefits to veterans and their survivors, including but not limited to, compensation, pensions, education, and health care.

  • TERRORISM AND PERSONAL LIBERTY

    TERRORISM AND PERSONAL LIBERTY

    The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Because we will refer to the Fourth and Fifth amendments, let us read them in their entirety. 

    Amendment IV: 

    “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” 

    Amendment V: 

    “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” 

    Note: there is no exception to these rights provided for war or public danger. 

    Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2: 

    “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” 

    Note: The threat of terrorism has not been claimed to be a rebellion or an invasion. 

    America is engaged in an undeclared war with an ill-defined enemy (terrorism), a war that threatens to be never-ending and that is being used to vastly expand government power, particularly that of the executive branch, at the expense of the individual liberties of the American people. 

    The “war on terrorism” is serving as an excuse for the government to spend beyond its income, expand the Federal bureaucracy, and socialize the nation through taxpayer bailouts of the airlines, subsidies to the giant insurance corporations, and other Federal programs. 

    We deplore and vigorously oppose legislation and executive action that deprive the people of their rights secured under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments under the guise of “combating terrorism” or “protecting national security.”

    Examples of such legislation are the National Security Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, the proposed Domestic Securities Enhancement Act (colloquially known as “Patriot II”), the Military Commissions Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, and especially the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. 

    We further oppose any other governmental action that would deprive persons of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. 

    • The National Security Act is used by the federal government as a shroud to prevent the American people and our elected officials from knowing how much and where our tax dollars are spent on covert operations around the world. The National Security Act prevents the release of Executive Orders and Presidential Decision Directives, e.g., PDD 25, to the American people and our elected representatives. Not only are many of these used to thwart justice in the name of national security, but some of the operations under this act may threaten our very national sovereignty. 
    • The USA PATRIOT Act permits arrests without warrants and secret detention without counsel, wiretaps without court supervision, searches and seizures without notification to the individual whose property is invaded, and a host of other violations of the legal safeguards our nation has historically developed according to principles descending from the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Since we will no longer have a free nation while the federal government (or the governments of the several states, as the federal government may authorize) can violate our historic rights under such laws, we call for the rejection of all such laws and the ceasing of any such further proposals including the aforementioned Domestic Securities Enhancement Act. 
    • The National Defense Authorization Act gives authority to the President of the United States to have persons arrested, including U.S. citizens, without a warrant, without a trial, indefinitely. 

    We support the repeal of the PATRIOT ACT and the FISA Court, and a permanent ban on NSA domestic spying, including using other agencies, banks, and private communications or internet companies. 

    For criminal activities only, federal law enforcement, investigatory, and intelligence shall obtain a warrant, which can only be kept sealed for 7 days. 

    We support the strict provisions of law that prohibit federal or state governments from hiding illegal actions behind the claims of State Secrecy or National Security or by classifying such activity as secret in any form. 

    The Constitution Party opposes all violent acts of sedition, treason, and covert guerrilla warfare conducted on U.S. soil. 

    Individuals responsible for these acts must be punished for their crimes, including the infliction of capital punishment where appropriate. 

    In responding to terrorism, however, the United States must avoid acts of retaliation abroad which destroy innocent human lives, creating enmity toward the United States and its people; and in accord with the views of our Founding Fathers, we must disengage this nation from the international entanglements which generate foreign hatred of the United States, and are used as the excuse for terrorist attacks on America and its people. 

    The ‘war on terrorism” is not a proper excuse for perpetual U.S. occupation of foreign lands, military assaults on countries that have not injured us, or perpetual commitment of taxpayer dollars to finance foreign governments.