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- Bring Government Back To the People
- Character and Moral Conduct
- Congressional Reform
- Conscription
- Cost Of Big Government
- Crime
- Defense
- Domestic Federal Aid
- Drug Abuse
- Education
- Election Reform
- Electoral College
- Energy
- Environment
- Executive Orders
- Defense
- Family
- Foreign Policy
- Gambling
- Government and Private Partnerships
- Gun Control
- Healthcare and Government
- Immigration
- Judiciary
- Money and Banking
- Obscenity and Sex Oriented Businesses
- Personal and Private Property Security
- Religious Freedom
- Social Security
- Statehood
- State Powers
- Tariffs and Trade
- Taxes
- Judiciary
- Terrorism and Personal Liberty
- Veterans
- Wage and Price Control
- Welfare
Bring Government back to the People
The closer civil government is to the people, the more responsible, responsive, and accountable it is likely to be.
THE PRINCIPLES
Constitution: Articles I – IV outlines the limited powers which the states gave to the federal government. Article I, Section 8 lists the specific and limited powers given to Congress.
The Tenth Amendment clearly affirms 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.
THE PROBLEM
The federal government, under both ruling parties, has taken more and more control over rights which are not authorized by the Constitution. Regionalization has also removed decision-making powers from the people and their elected officials.
THE SOLUTION
Agencies which exceed the limited powers of the federal government must be defunded and dismantled. Policies and regulations which exceed the limited powers of the federal government must also be removed.
THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT
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.
Character and Moral Conduct
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 PRINCIPLES
John Adams (2nd President and Signer of the Declaration): “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
He also counselled: “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.”
THE PROBLEM
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.
THE SOLUTION
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
The Constitution Party will hold elected officials accountable for their behavior and conduct, both public and private. We will also require the same from our candidates.
Congressional Reform
Congress must once again be accountable to the people and obedient to the Constitution, repealing all laws that delegate legislative powers to regulatory agencies, bureaucracies, private organizations, the Federal Reserve Board, international agencies, the president, and the judiciary.
THE PRINCIPLES
The Congress of these United States has become an overpaid, overstaffed, self-serving institution.
US Constitution, Article 6, Clause 3: Article VI, Clause 3 states “the Senators and Representatives . . . shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution . . .”
THE PROBLEM
Congress confiscates taxpayer funds to finance exorbitant and unconstitutionally determined salaries, pensions, and perks. Most members of Congress have become more accountable to the Washington establishment than to their constituents. Both chambers of Congress are all too often unresponsive and irresponsible, arrogantly placing themselves above the very laws they enact, and beyond the control of the citizens they have sworn to represent and serve.
THE SOLUTION
Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment: this will return to state legislatures the function of electing the Senate.
By repealing the 17th Amendment, the U.S. Senate will return to being a body that represents the legislatures of the several states on the federal level and, thus restore a tremendously vital part of the designed checks and balances of power that our Constitution originally provided.
THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT
The Constitution Party will seek to Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, support legislation to end the practice of attaching unrelated riders to bills, support legislation to require an accurate Congressional Record, and will work to removed congressional pensions and benefits.
Conscription
Compulsory government service is incompatible with individual liberty. Conscription deprives a person of liberty without due process of law. This is clearly prohibited by the Fifth Amendment.
Constitutional Convention (Article V)
We oppose any attempt to call for a Constitutional convention, for any purpose whatsoever, because it cannot be limited to any single issue, and such convention could seriously erode our Constitutionally protected unalienable rights.
Cost of Big Government
A legitimate and primary purpose of civil government is to safeguard the God-given rights of its citizens; namely, life, liberty, and property. Only those duties, functions, and programs specifically assigned to the federal government by the Constitution should be funded.
Crime
Crime, in most cases, is to be dealt with by state and local governments. To the degree that the federal government, in its legislation, judicial actions, regulations, and executive branch activities, interferes with the ability of the people in their communities to apprehend, judge, and penalize accused lawbreakers, it bears responsibility for the climate of crime, which has grown more destructive with each passing year.
Defense
It is a primary obligation of the federal government to provide for the common defense, and to be vigilant regarding potential threats, prospective capabilities, and perceived intentions of potential enemies.
Domestic Federal Aid
The Constitution assigns all powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people. Domestic federal “aid” not authorized by the Constitution is not only illegal, it is immoral.
Drug Abuse
The Constitution Party will uphold the right of states and localities to restrict access to drugs and to enforce such restrictions and support legislation to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States from foreign sources.
Education
All teaching is related to basic assumptions about God and man. Education as a whole, therefore, cannot be separated from religious faith. The law of our Creator assigns the authority and responsibility of educating children to their parents.