2024 – 2028

national platform

We declare the platform of the Constitution Party to be centered on the principles found in these historical documents:

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
THE BILL OF RIGHTS

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Foundation of liberty & Supreme law of the land

Kicking tyranny off the continent
Since 1775.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights interpreted according to the original intent of the Framers of the American Constitutional Republic. These documents are the foundation of Liberty and are the Supreme Law of the Land.

Established 1992.

the sole purpose of government

The sole purpose of government, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, is to secure our unalienable rights given us by our Creator. When Government grows beyond this scope, it is usurpation, and liberty is compromised.

We believe the major issues we face today are best solved by a renewed allegiance to the original intent of these founding documents.

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THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY

Sanctity of Life

Natural Family

Religious Freedom

Education

Personal & Private Property

A MORE PERFECT UNION

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.

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Statehood

State Sovereignty

ESTABLISH JUSTICE

Judiciary

Crime

Drug Abuse

Gambling

Obscenity & Sex Oriented Businesses

DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY

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.

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Election Reform

Electoral College

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.

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