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  • The Declaration Signing

    The Declaration Signing

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it.

    On August 2nd John Hancock, the President of the Congress, signed the engrossed copy with a bold signature. The other delegates, following custom, signed beginning at the right with the signatures arranged by states from northernmost New Hampshire to southernmost Georgia. Although all delegates were not present on August 2nd, 56 delegates eventually signed the document. Late signers were Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean, and Matthew Thornton, who was unable to place his signature with the other New Hampshire delegates due to a lack of space. Some delegates, including Robert R. Livingston of New York, a member of the drafting committee, never signed the Declaration.

    (NOTE: There is only one handwritten, signed Declaration of Independence; It is on display in the National Archives in Washington D.C.)

    National Archives

    Visit the Signers of the Declaration page on our website to find out more about the Signers.

    Read the full text of the original Constitution below:

    In Congress, July 4, 1776

    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

    Georgia

    Button Gwinnett

    Lyman Hall

    George Walton

    Massachusetts

    John Adams

    Samuel Adams

    Elbridge Gerry

    John Hancock

    Robert Treat Paine

    Pennsylvania

    George Clymer

    Benjamin Franklin

    Robert Morris

    John Morton

    George Ross

    Benjamin Rush

    James Smith

    George Taylor

    James Wilson

    New Jersey

    Abraham Clark

    John Hart

    Francis Hopkinson

    Richard Stockton

    John Witherspoon

    North Carolina

    Joseph Hewes

    William Hooper

    John Penn

    Maryland

    Charles Carroll of Carrollton

    Samuel Chase

    William Paca

    Thomas Stone

    Delaware

    Thomas McKean

    George Read

    Caesar Rodney

    New Hampshire

    Josiah Bartlett

    Matthew Thornton

    William Whipple

    Rhode Island

    William Ellery

    Stephen Hopkins

    South Carolina

    Thomas Heyward, Jr.

    Thomas Lynch, Jr.

    Arthur Middleton

    Edward Rutledge

    Virginia

    Carter Braxton

    Benjamin Harrison

    Thomas Jefferson

    Francis Lightfoot Lee

    Richard Henry Lee

    Thomas Nelson, Jr.

    George Wythe

    New York

    William Floyd

    Francis Lewis

    Philip Livingston

    Lewis Morris

    Connecticut

    Samuel Huntington

    Roger Sherman

    William Williams

    Oliver Wolcott

  • What was the Boston Non-importation Agreement?

    What was the Boston Non-importation Agreement?

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    In response to the Townshend Acts, the Boston merchants and traders got together to boycott goods imported from Great Britain. The Townshend Revenue Act, required a tax to be paid for the purchase of glass, lead, oil, paint, paper, and tea. The non-importation agreement pushed Bostonians, and the surrounding areas, towards self-sufficiency; a characteristic that would prove invaluable throughout the American Revolution.

    The American Colonies began heavy smuggling operations that took the bottom out of British merchant’s profits. These efforts, and the losses caused by them, ultimately led the Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.

    Boston Non-Importation Agreement, August 1, 1768

    The merchants and traders in the town of Boston, having taken into consideration the deplorable situation of the trade and the many difficulties it at present labours under on account of the scarcity of money, which is daily decreasing for want of the other remittances to discharge our debts in Great Britain, and the large sums collected by the officers of the customs for duties on goods imported; the heavy taxes levied to discharge the debts contracted by the government in the late war; the embarrassments and restrictions laid on the trade by the several late Acts of Parliament; together with the bad success of our cod fishery this season, and the discouraging prospect of the whale fishery, by which our principal sources of remittances are like to be greatly diminished, and we thereby rendered unable to pay the debts we owe the merchants in Great Britain, and to continue the importation of goods from thence:

    We, the subscribers, in order to relieve the trade under those discouragements, to promote industry, frugality, and economy, and to discourage luxury and every kind of extravagance, do promise and engage to and with each other as follows:

    That we will not send or import from Great Britain this fall, either on our own account, or on commission, any other goods than what are already ordered for the fall supply.

    That we will not send for or import any kind of goods or merchandise from Great Britain, either on our own account, or on commissions, or any otherwise, from January 1, 1769, to January 1, 1770, except salt, coals, fish-hooks and lines, hemp, duck, bar lead and shot, wool-cards, and card-wire.

    That we will not purchase of any factors, or others, any kind of goods imported from Great Britain from January 1, 1769, to January 1, 1770. That we will not import on our own account, or on commission, or Purchase from any Who shall import from any other colony in America, from January 1, 1769, to January 1, 1770, any tea, glass, paper, or other goods commonly imported from Great Britain.

    That we will not, from and after January 1, 1769, import into the province any tea, paper, glass, or painters’ colours, until the Acts imposing duties on these articles have been repealed.

    The Avalon Project

  • The Uniparty is Out; America is Back In

    The Uniparty is Out; America is Back In

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    America 250 Fund Drive

    When in the course of human events we find ourselves once again being told by a tyrannical government that we must do whatever the government tells us, it is once again time to defend our God-given rights and limit our government. The uniparty has indoctrinated many with the belief that there is no choice but to vote for them and that a vote for anyone else is a “wasted vote” or a vote for the “other team.” Their bipartisan efforts to keep voter options limited is only surpassed by their bipartisan efforts to suppress our individual rights and take our money.

    “But, pardon me, my fellow citizens, I know you want not zeal or fortitude. You will maintain your rights or perish in the generous struggle. However, difficult the combat, you never will decline it when freedom is the prize.”

    Dr. Joseph Warren ~ Delivered at Boston, 6 March 1775

    Fight The Lies

    The Democratic and Republican parties are happy to use voters to maintain power, but they have grown completely tone deaf to the needs of their supporters. And they are losing major supporters as they push out those who object to the waste and abuse.

    • Tucker Carlson recently announced his leaving the Republican party.
    • Marjorie Taylor Greene has also announced that she is done with Republican party.
    • Thomas Massie was primaried when he stood for principles over party.
    Support the Uniparty Exit

    Everyday Americans have had enough. The youth are avoiding the uniparty and registering independent in record numbers. We have a growing opportunity…and the Constitution Party is capitalizing on it!

    As a national political party, we can scale up quickly with new volunteers and new donors to take on the uniparty across the nation. As our current ballot qualified States are adding more and more candidates, and more and more local organizations, we are looking to add more ballot qualified States.

    In New Hampshire, the Constitution Party has an opportunity gain ballot access, and gain recognized party status, through the efforts of the CP of NH and their 2026 U.S. Senate candidate, Edmond Laplante. We are currently raising funds and volunteers to assist in his signature gathering of 3,000 signatures to be placed on the general ballot this fall. With only 4% of the vote, the CP of NH will give New Hampshire a third political party to combat the uniparty.

    The Constitution Party of North Carolina is also gathering signatures to regain the right for North Carolinians to register with the CP of NC and to be able to place their candidates on the ballot without having to endure the odious and enormous challenge of signature gathering for ballot recognition.

    West Virginia recently gained their ballot access and has joined the ranks of other CP States that are able to offer candidates.

    We would like to be able to offer these candidates financial support for their campaigns and assist them with advertising since they will be facing media blackouts thanks to the uniparty. We are therefore running a major fundraising campaign through the end of 2026 to expand Americans’ political options, expand the CP’s ballot access, build State Affiliates, and support our growing number of candidates.

    In honor of America’s 250th birthday, we have a goal to raise $250,000 by the end of 2026. We have an opportunity to launch a major 2028 political revolution out of the collapse of the two old dying parties by taking advantage of the immediate situation. Your support right now will have an exponential impact down the road. Will you make a commitment to freedom now?

    Add Your Funds

    “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

    Patrick Henry

    “It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

    Samuel Adams

    Join in the Restoration of Liberty
  • From the Lyon’s Mouth. War an Ode.

    From the Lyon’s Mouth. War an Ode.

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    The Pennsylvania Ledger: Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey Weekly Advertiser

    Printed by James Humphreys, Jr.

    POET’s CORNER.

    15 June 1776

    From the Lyon’s Mouth.
    WAR an ODE.

    ON all these dreary plains,
    There yet a sorrowing Muse remains,
    Who has seen with weeping eye,
    These former domes of love and joy,
    Happiness, contentment, case,
    And Freedom cloth’d in robes of peace,
    Where the Graces us’d to play,
    Now fallen desolation’s prey;

    With her I’ll view the scene of blood
    And destruction, that pursued
    The tracts of Mars, stern God of war,
    When, riding in his brazen car;
    Drawn by horses swift as wind,
    With all the furies close behind,
    And civil discord in his train
    He took his way o’er heaps of slain.

    First, shrouded in the veil of night,
    To Lexington we’ll take our flight.
    Borne on fancy’s rapid pinions,
    Swift I fly through liquid regions,
    Already do I see the ground
    On which, her brows with cypress bound,
    Britain’s genius mournful view’d
    Her children shed each other’s blood.

    Sudden darkness round is spread,
    Hark! What roaring peals of thunder!
    See the forked lightning fly!
    The bodies of the mighty dead,
    Their icy bands have burst assunder,
    And, in silent majesty,
    Rising from their tomb,
    Stalk along the awful gloom.

    Oh! from this more than deepest night
    Quickly let us take our flight;
    Swift as thought, convey’d through air,
    I stand on Abr’am’s fatal plain,
    Soft pity sheds a tender tear,
    To think how many heroes, slain,
    In the pride of youthful bloom,
    On this spot have found a tomb.

    Ah me! what hosts in dread array
    Towards yonder City bend their way.
    Hark! the angry cannons sound;
    Nought but flame and smoak is seen,
    Streams of blood bedew the ground,
    Alas! how horrid is the scene.

    Here the Son, his Parent’s pride,
    The only comfort of their age,
    On the field all crimson dy’d,
    Feels the Tyrant’s keenest rage,
    Here the bleeding Father lies,
    His Widow’s and his Orphan’s cries
    Assault his dying ear,
    And fills his soul with deep despair.

    Here the Patriot bends beneath
    His wounds all honest on the breast,
    He feels the approaching hand of death,
    And with groaning sinks to rest,
    That eye is clos’d in endless night
    Which late flash’d terror round,
    The arm so terrible in fight
    Now helpless lies upon the ground.

    Here the Lover seeking fame,
    Meets a glorious death;
    While his much lov’d Mistress’s name
    Sounds upon his last breath.
    Be calm, my tortur’d Soul, he cries,
    Ye boisterous winds your raging cease,
    Least my dreary, mournful sighs
    Wound my fair Amanda’s peace.

    But let some gentle breathing Zephyr,
    In the softest, tenderest whisper,
    Convey the tidings to her ear;
    The drop, if she does drop a tear
    Oh! let some little Cherub save,
    And borne on pity’s downy wing,
    The pearly treasure bring,
    And cast it on my grave.

    Most happy men! your troubles cease,
    Your souls are fled to realms of peace;
    Beyond a cruel Monarch’s power,
    In some blest Elysian Bower,
    Where bloody Tyrants ne’er can come;
    Perhaps ye read your Country’s doom.
    Oh! say, will never peace return?
    Ah! are we ever doom’d to mourn?

    Self whisp’ring reason tells me no,
    Our sorrows soon will cease to flow;
    Peace again will bless this shore,
    Smiling Freedom will return,
    And horrid war no more
    Shall cause this land to mourn.
    The Almighty’s self will interpose
    This scene of blood to close.

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  • The Committee of Five

    The Committee of Five

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    “If ever the Time should come, when vain and aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”

    Samuel Adams

    On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selected five men to serve on a committee for drafting a Declaration of Independence in accordance with the resolves proposed by Richard Henry Lee. The Committee of Five, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, were chosen for this task.

    The Committee of Five discussed the structure it should follow, then asked Thomas Jefferson, the Virginian, to prepare a draft of the declaration. Thomas Jefferson’s first draft was then discussed and minor edits made by the committee.

    The Committee of Five would present their proposed declaration to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776.

    In Congress, July 4, 1776

    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

  • The Lee Resolves

    The Lee Resolves

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    “If ever the Time should come, when vain and aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”

    Samuel Adams

    On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed several resolves in the Continental Congress. These resolves set the stage for the American Colonies to finally separate from Great Britain. And while the Continental Congress did not immediately vote on Lee’s resolves, after some discussion it did move forward with appointing three committees (one for each piece of the resolves) to begin constructing the documents required by the resolves.

    Many delegates to the Continental Congress wanted to correspond with the legislatures that sent them, to get instructions on how to proceed. The delegates were generally agreed that this was the only recourse left to the Colonies, but things needed to proceed in an orderly, legal fashion.

    The resolves by Lee were clear and clean as to independence and as to the next steps to take.

    Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

    That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.

    That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.

    250 years later, as the cycle of human events has once again turned away from the hard-won liberty of America’s Revolution, the Constitution Party National Committee took a stand against a different form of tyranny and passed the Resolution of 2026.

    16 May 2026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Resolution to Separate from the Tyranny of the Democratic and Republican Parties

    Whereas the Democratic and Republican parties have manipulated the political systems in the United States and created a UNIPARTY to gain and maintain power and control over the rights of Citizens to further their own agenda;

    Whereas the UNIPARTY has pitted Citizens against each other for the purposes of fundraising and political theater, disturbing the domestic tranquility of the nation;

    Whereas, the UNIPARTY has consistently put the interests of corporate entities before the rights of the Citizens;

    Whereas the UNIPARTY has made claims of owning our votes and has used psyops to indoctrinate the public into believing that voting for someone not approved by the UNIPARTY is wrong and harmful.

    Whereas the UNIPARTY no longer represents We the People, nor protects our rights;

    Be it Resolved, That we Citizens and Voters are, and have a right to be, free and independent in our voting, that we are absolved from all allegiance to the UNIPARTY, and that all political connection between them and the Citizens and Voters of these united States is, and ought to be, totally dissolved to maintain our constitutional governance.

    Therefore, the Constitution Party calls on We the People to declare their independence by renouncing their loyalty to the UNIPARTY.

  • What Is the Quartering Act?

    What Is the Quartering Act?

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    “If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.”

    Samuel Adams

    The British troops were a regular fixture in the American Colonies leading up to the Revolution. During the period known as the French and Indian Wars, the colonies were asked to support the troops with supplies and housing when needed. Most colonists did not complain about the burden during the fighting, however, after the war ended, the troops remained in the colonies.

    Keeping up troops during a time of peace became more of a bone of contention as time went on. In 1765 Parliament passed a Quartering Act requiring the Colonies to provide barracks and supplies for the troops kept in their midst. In 1774, Parliament passed a Quartering Act giving British authorities the right to secure housing and supplies for the troops without waiting for barracks. This allowed troops to be moved into a city quickly and made it more difficult for local authorities to keep troops to the outskirts of town.

    Colonists felt first-hand the oppression of having troops kept up for enforcing government dictates on the people. There were even instances of violence brought on by these heavy-handed measures; the most famous of which was called the Boston Massacre where five were killed and three were injured.

    The speech by Dr. Benjamin Rush on the fifth anniversary of the Boston Massacre gives us the feelings of the colonists during this time:

    “but you will permit me to say that with a sincerity equal to theirs I mourn over my bleeding country: with them I weep at her distress, and with them deeply resent the many wrongs which she has suffered from the hands of cruel and ungodly men.

    That personal freedom is the natural right of every man; and that property, or an exclusive right to dispose of what he has honestly acquired by his own labor, necessarily results therefrom, are truths which none but knaves and fools will venture to deny.”

    Provocation by Great Britain:

    Parliament. The Quartering Act of June 2, 1774

    An act for the better providing suitable quarters for officers and soldiers in his Majesty’s service in North America.

    WHEREAS doubts have been entertained, whether troops can be quartered otherwise than in barracks, in case barracks have been provided sufficient for the quartering of all officers and soldiers within any town, township, city, district, or place, within his Majesty’s dominions in North America: And whereas it may frequently happen, from the situation of such barracks, that, if troops should be quartered therein, they would not be stationed where their presence may be necessary and required: be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That, in such cases, it shall and may be lawful for the persons who now are, or may be hereafter, authorised be law, in any of the provinces within his Majesty’s dominions in North America, and they are hereby respectively authorised, impowered, and directed, on the requisition of the officer who, for the time being, has the command of his Majesty’s forces in North America, to cause any officers or soldiers in his Majesty’s service to be quartered and billetted in such manner as is now directed by law, where no barracks are provided by the colonies.

    II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if it shall happen at any time that any officers or soldiers in his Majesty’s service shall remain within any of the said colonies without quarters, for the space of twenty-four hours after such quarters shall have been demanded, it shall and may be lawful for the governor of the province to order and direct such and so many uninhabited houses, out-houses, barns, or other buildings, as he shall think necessary to be taken, (making a reasonable allowance for the same), and make fit for the reception of such officers and soldiers, and to put and quarter such officers and soldiers therein, for such time as he shall think proper.

    III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act, and every thing herein contained, shall continue and be in force, in all his Majesty’s dominions in North America, until the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.

    Colonial Response:

    The Declaration of Independence

    Among the list of Offenses committed by the King –

    “For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:”

    The Founders Solution:

    U.S. Constitution, Amendment III

    “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

    “The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”

    Samuel Adams

  • Remembering those who gave everything

    Remembering those who gave everything

    Thomas Jefferson: “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? …The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION PARTY CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    Captain Nathan Hale

    There are many who gave their life in the American Revolution. One who met his demise in 1776 was Captain Nathan Hale. Hale was a schoolmaster who served with the militia during the early years of the war. When Washington needed information about Long Island, he requested several spies go behind enemy lines to obtain the information.

    One of the volunteers who went on the spy mission for Washington was Captain Hale. During his time behind enemy lines, Hale was captured and sentenced to hang as a spy. It was reported that immediately prior to his hanging Hale said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

    April 19, 1775

    British Regulars arrive at the green in Lexington to find militia standing across the green in parade formation in protest of the Regulars’ mission to confiscate guns and ammunition. When the militia began to withdraw from the field, shots were fired and men died.

    Lexington Casualties: John Brown, Samuel Hadley, Caleb Harrington, Jonathan Harrington, Robert Munroe, Isaac Muzzey, Asahel Porter, and Jonas Parker.

    Dr. Joseph Warren

    Dr. Warren was an early supporter of independence working alongside the Sons of Liberty. Besides maintaining his medical practice, he worked to build up the militia and prepare it for the upcoming war. He worked with a spy network and received the information that British Regulars were going to arrest John Hancock and John Adams and march on Concord and sent Revere and Dawes out on their midnight rides.

    Dr. Warren joined with the militia in chasing and hounding the Regulars back to Boston and was appointed Major General by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Dr. Warren was killed during the final attack on Breeds Hill.

    Apart from his militia and medical work and his work with the spy ring, Dr. Warren was also elected President of 2nd Massachusetts Provincial Congress and served on the Massachusetts Committee of Safety. Dr. Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves and was well-known for his speech on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre.

    “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

    Benjamin Franklin

  • The Escalating War on Conservatives

    The Escalating War on Conservatives

    CONSTITUTION PARTY NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

    Justin Magill

    “If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.” (Samuel Adams)

    The GOP continues to fracture and bleed as the party continues to drive out conservative politicians and voters. This shift is obvious during the primaries in who the GOP supports and in how much money they spend to defeat the conservative candidates running. Quite often they spend more to defeat the conservative candidate in the primary than they do to defeat their opponents in the general election.

    As this war on conservatism continues, it escalates. We are reminded why Howard Phillips founded the Constitution Party. He started it to be an ark for conservatives when the GOP rejected them.

    In support of that mission, and to encourage others to make the break, the Constitution Party National Committee passed the following Resolution at their recent meeting in Philadelphia on this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence:

    RESOLUTION TO SEPARATE FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES

    Whereas the Democratic and Republican parties have manipulated the political systems in the United States and created a UNIPARTY to gain and maintain power and control over the rights of Citizens to further their own agenda.

    Whereas the UNIPARTY has pitted Citizens against each other for the purposes of fundraising and political theater, disturbing the domestic tranquility of the nation;

    Whereas, the UNIPARTY has consistently put the interests of corporate entities before the rights of the Citizens;

    Whereas the UNIPARTY has made claims of owning our votes and has used psyops to indoctrinate the public into believing that voting for someone not approved by the UNIPARTY is wrong and harmful.

    Whereas the UNIPARTY no longer represents We the People, nor protects our rights;

    Be it Resolved, That we Citizens and Voters are, and have a right to be, free and independent in our voting, that we are absolved from all allegiance to the UNIPARTY, and that all political connection between them and the Citizens and Voters of these united States is, and ought to be, totally dissolved to maintain our constitutional governance.

    Therefore, the Constitution Party calls on We the People to declare their independence by renouncing their loyalty to the UNIPARTY.

    The Declaration of Independence from the Two-Party System: May 16, 2026

    When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the people of a nation to break free from the political structures that no longer serve them, and to reclaim their rightful power as citizens, respect for the opinions of the Nation demands that they explain why.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all people are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That governments, and the political systems that shape them, exist to protect these rights, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. That whenever a political system becomes corrupt, entrenched, and destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to establish new systems that better reflect their needs, values, and hopes.

    Prudence indeed will dictate that political systems long established should not be changed for light or fleeting causes; and experience has shown that people are often more willing to endure frustrations and disappointments than to challenge deeply rooted systems. But when a long train of abuses and failures shows a clear pattern of placing party loyalty, corporate interests, and political survival over the rights of individuals, it is the right — it is the duty — of the people to throw off such systems, and to create new political pathways for their future.

    The history of the Democratic and Republican Parties is a history of repeated failures to address the needs of the people and repeated prioritization of power over principle. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:

    • They have entrenched a two-party monopoly that stifles competition, suppresses alternative voices, and denies voters meaningful choice.
    • They have fueled bitter polarization, dividing communities, families, and the nation, not for the people’s benefit, but for their own political gain.
    • They have prioritized corporate donors and special interests over the needs of working people, and small businesses.
    • They have acted unconstitutionally on unsubstantiated threats like climate change, economic inequality, healthcare access, and gun violence, to limit individual freedom.
    • They have undermined trust in our republican form of government by gerrymandering, facilitating voter fraud, and introducing reforms like ranked-choice voting and campaign finance fraud.
    • They have made performative gestures while avoiding meaningful structural change, focusing on political point-scoring instead of solving problems.
    • They have weaponized fear, misinformation, and media echo chambers to manipulate public opinion and cling to power.
    • They have made it nearly impossible for independent or third-party candidates to compete on a level playing field, locking the system to their advantage.

    We have called upon them, time and again, to reform — to open the political process, to listen to the voices of the people, to place country over party. But they have responded with gridlock, empty promises, or further entrenchment. A political establishment that refuses accountability and change is no longer fit to lead a free people.

    We, therefore, the independent citizens of the United States, do solemnly declare that we are free and independent from the Democratic and Republican Parties — that we do not recognize any monopoly they think they have over our lives; that we claim the right to build new parties and movements, to support independent candidates, and to restore our republic to truly reflect constitutional principles.

    And for the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the principles of justice, equality, and self-determination, we mutually pledge to each other our time, our energy, and our unwavering commitment to a better future.

    Declaration of Independence from the Two-Party System (PDF)
    Declaration of Independence from the Two-Party System.May.16.2026Download

  • Reflecting on the Spirit of America

    Reflecting on the Spirit of America

    Constitution Party National Chairman

    Justin Magill

    Throughout this 250th Anniversary year, we challenge everyone to consider those who founded this country. Take a deep look; not just at the famous founders, but at the everyday men and women who made this country. There were folks working at every level of government to bring about this new understanding and new form of government.

    These folks were independent and strong, deciding their future and making it happen. They literally carved new communities out of forest and wilderness. They started new businesses and discovered new resources. They aided each other and supported community.

    Even those in States that were not of the original thirteen have their stories of the original settlors. Stories of self-reliance and resilience as they carved out large permanent communities in the rugged wilderness. Stories of heroes of self-governance and of the journey to Statehood.

    We challenge you to look for these stories (they should be easy to find this year) and to take courage and inspiration from their journeys. We challenge you to look openly and honestly at our history and to learn from past mistakes. And above all, we challenge you to look at the things that made us a beacon of Liberty and Freedom and that created the phenomenon of the American Dream.