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Month: October 2026

  • The Individual Responsibility of Every Citizen

    The Individual Responsibility of Every Citizen

    We certainly oppose government social programs and government actions that do not comport with the purpose of government. Rather, we Constitutionists believe charity is the sole duty of individuals and/or private organizations.

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    Tenth Amendment

    “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.”

    RESPONSIBILITIES RESERVED TO THE CITIZEN

    While it is true that “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government,” Citizens do have a duty to care for their families and communities.

    We ask all of our members to look for the needs in their own communities and find ways to help those around them. Many communities have private organizations, social clubs, and churches that already have programs in place to assist others in the community. If there are no community assistance resources in your area, consider reaching out to others in your community to assist you in meeting a need.

    One way to reduce the size of government is to meet a need to the point that government becomes obsolete in that area. Let’s return government to its limited role by stepping up and taking responsibility for our duty.

    “I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain proportion of his income for charitable purposes, & that it is his further duty to see it so applied as to do the most good of which it is capable.”

    Thomas Jefferson – Extract from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Rogers and William Staughton, March 2, 1806

    “Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow’s mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.”

    George Washington, “The writings of George Washington,” 1835

  • Cutting Through the Rhetoric this Election Cycle

    Cutting Through the Rhetoric this Election Cycle

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    Comparing what is said, with what the purpose of government is.

    Some enjoy the excitement, debates, and speeches of elections, some dread the inundation of information and the ugly attacks on individuals and groups, but whatever your personal feelings about this season of civic engagement, how do you know who and what to support?

    How do you get some real value out of the circus surrounding elections to decide who to support?

    THE FIRST, AND EASIEST, STEP IS TO LOOK THROUGH THE LENS OF THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT.

    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
    all men are created equal, that they are endowed
    by their Creator with certain unalienable
    Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
    the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
    rights, Governments are instituted among Men.”

    The purpose of government, and all public functionaries, is to secure Individual Rights to each individual.

    Every claim should be filtered first through this purpose. Any advocacy for government doing something beyond this scope is an obvious Red Flag. Even if it is a claim or proposal from your favorite candidate or organization, this Red Flag should immediately put you on your guard.

    What about those areas where reasonable minds may disagree about whether the service fits the purpose of government?

    THE SECOND STEP IS TO FILTER OUT THE NOISE WITH A QUESTION ABOUT WHAT GOVERNMENT ACTORS WOULD NEED TO DO TO ACCOMPLISH THE PROPOSED ACTION(S) OR OUTCOME.

    If Individual Rights have to be abused to accomplish the proposed outcome, it is an immediate Red Flag! In this “greater good” scenario, it is often claimed that the ends justify the means. The reality is that the means determine the ends. If the government is permitted to violate Individual Rights now, THERE WILL BE NO END TO THE VIOLATIONS.

    Be sure to think critically this election cycle and share your thoughts with your friends and neighbors.

  • Constitution Party Statement on technology, privacy, and constitutional government

    Constitution Party Statement on technology, privacy, and constitutional government

    Technology, Privacy, and Constitutional Government

    The Constitution Party affirms that technological advancement does not alter the fundamental relationship between the people and their government. The powers delegated to government remain limited by the Constitution, and the rights of the people do not diminish because new technologies make intrusion, surveillance, data collection, or centralized control easier.

    The Fourth Amendment was written to secure the people in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures and to prohibit general searches by requiring probable cause and particularity. We hold that these principles apply no less in the digital age. A government that lacks constitutional authority to conduct a general search does not acquire that authority by employing a corporation, purchasing access to privately collected information, contracting for a surveillance service, or directing artificial intelligence to search and correlate information on its behalf.

    Private enterprise and private property are essential to liberty.

    Corporations and technology companies operating as private enterprises are therefore not government merely because they possess information or technology. But neither may government use a private corporation as an instrument to exercise powers government itself does not possess. When private technology is employed for governmental purposes, constitutional limitations upon government must remain intact.

    This principle has immediate application to automated license-plate readers, facial and image recognition, artificial intelligence, data brokers, cloud databases, and other technologies capable of recording, retaining, combining, analyzing, and retrospectively searching information about the movements, associations, activities, or transactions of the people. The Constitution Party opposes the transformation of such technologies into systems of general governmental surveillance of people who are not suspected of crime.

    The same constitutional principles apply to the rapidly expanding infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence and large-scale computing. The Constitution Party does not oppose data centers, artificial intelligence, or technological development as such. We support genuine private enterprise conducted with respect for private property and constitutional government.

    We oppose government/private partnerships, special governmental privilege, involuntary public subsidy of private enterprise, and arrangements that transfer extraordinary private costs to taxpayers, utility customers, property owners, or communities that did not voluntarily assume them.

    Government also has a duty to conduct the people’s business openly. Public money, public infrastructure, governmental authority, tax privileges, utility commitments, or other public resources should not be committed through secrecy that prevents meaningful accountability before governmental commitments become effectively irreversible.

    Neither economic development, technological competition, administrative convenience, public safety, nor national security creates governmental power that the Constitution does not grant. Technology may change rapidly, but principles of constitutional government do not change.

    The Constitution Party therefore affirms a simple standard: government may not use technology – or a private corporation providing that technology – to exercise power over the people that the Constitution does not give government itself.