CONSTITUTION PARTY NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

Justin Magill

The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act on 22 March 1765. The Act imposed a tax on legal and commercial paperwork as well as on newspapers and other distributed writings. It was intended to raise revenue for war debts by a tax that colonists could not avoid. The colonial legislatures were given no say in this tax, and offenders could be tried in courts of Admiralty, without rights to a jury or witnesses.

These taxes were imposed only on the British subjects in the North American colonies and not on other British subjects, which effectively treated the colonists as second class citizens. The American Colonies were not represented in Parliament, and they declared it to be unconstitutional for such taxes to be imposed on them without their consent or the consent of their representatives. “No taxation without representation” is a phrase we have all heard which reflects the battle they faced.

The treatment the Founders suffered, at the hands of a government they had no say in, became the major issue that drove the American Revolution. Even those who sought peace with England until the very end, had to acknowledge that returning to peace with King and Parliament would mean bowing down to any tax or restriction they might choose to put on the colonies.

Our right to self-govern has been abdicated by many current citizens who have become too lazy or too ignorant to do the hard work of keeping our public functionaries in line. When citizens abdicate government actors are only too willing to take control.

Are you going to your municipal meetings?

Together we can make 2026 the Tipping Point where America returns to the Fundamental Principles of Liberty and Self-governance that made it great.

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Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5 grants only to Congress the power: 

“To coin Money [and] regulate the Value thereof”, with no provision for such power to be delegated to any other group. 

Note: Congress began immediately to fulfill this obligation with the Mint Act of 1792, establishing a US Mint for producing Gold and Silver based coin, prescribing the value and content of each coin and affixing the penalty of death to those who debase such currency. 

Article 1, Section 10: 

“No State shall … coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts”. 

Note: The Constitution forbade the States from accepting or using anything other than a Gold and Silver based currency. 

Money functions as both a medium of exchange and a symbol of a nation’s morality. 

The Founding Fathers established a system of “coin” money that was designed to prohibit the “improper and wicked” manipulation of the nation’s medium of exchange while guaranteeing the power of the citizens’ earnings. 

The federal government has departed from the principle of “coin” money as defined by the U.S. Constitution and the Mint Act of 1792. It has granted unconstitutional control of the nation’s monetary and banking system to the private Federal Reserve System. 

The Constitution Party recommends a substantive reform of the system of Federal taxation. 

In order for such reform to be effective, it is necessary that the United States: 

• Return to the money system set forth in the Constitution. 
• Repeal the Federal Reserve Act.
• Abolish the Federal Reserve banks.
• Prohibit fractional reserve banking. 

We support a debt-free, interest free money system. 

It is our intention that no system of “debt money” shall be imposed on the people of the United States. 

We oppose any form of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). 

We oppose any financial institution discriminating against or denying services to any person, organization, or business based upon their political, religious, or philosophical orientation. 

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