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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
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- Election Reform
- Electoral College
- Energy
- Environment
- Executive Orders
- Family
- Foreign Policy
- Gambling
- Government and Private Partnerships
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- Gun Control
- Healthcare and Government
- Immigration
- Judiciary
- Money and Banking
- Obscenity and Sex Oriented Businesses
- Personal and Private Property Security
- Religious Freedom
- Sanctity of Life
- Social Security
State Powers
The states are sovereign entities which possess supremacy over all things not delegated to the general (federal) government within the Constitution, and they possess the full authority of oversight over the Constitution, subject to the will of the people of the states.
Tariffs and Trade
Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others these Constitutional powers, including the President of the United States. We oppose the unconstitutional transfer of authority over U.S. trade policy from Congress to agencies, domestic or foreign, which improperly exercise policy-setting functions with respect to U.S. trade policy.
Taxes
Since 1913, our Constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property have been abridged and diminished by the imposition on each of us of Federal income, payroll, and estate taxes. This is an unconstitutional Federal assumption of direct taxing authority.
THE PRINCIPLES
The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power: “To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
In Article I, Section 9, the original document made clear that: “No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census of Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”
It is moreover established that: “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.”
THE PROBLEM
The Internal Revenue Service is the enforcement arm of the Federal government’s present unjust tax system. Citizens, both in groups and as individuals, have repeatedly sought responses from the IRS bureaucracy as to the basis for the agency’s tax policies and procedures. No answers have been forthcoming, although a responsible government must be answerable to the people and has a duty to those it is supposed to serve.
THE SOLUTION
We will propose legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and will veto any authorization, appropriation, or continuing resolution that contains any funding whatsoever for that illicit and unconstitutional agency.
THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT
The Constitution Party intends to replace the current tax system of the U.S. government (including income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate taxes) with a tariff-based revenue system supplemented by excise taxes.
Terrorism and Personal Liberty
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.
Veterans
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.
Wage and Price control
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.
Welfare
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.