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Tag: Power of the States

  • STATEHOOD

    STATEHOOD

    US Constitution, Article I Section 8 Clause 17: 

    “Congress shall have power …To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings…” 

    Article IV Section 4: 

    “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” 

    Article IV Section 4 Clause 3:

    “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union.” 

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (re-enacted under Constitutional authority in 1789) defined that all new states appropriately admitted will enter the nation on an equal footing with the original 13 states. 

    We oppose any effort to confer statehood on the District of Columbia or any representation in Congress comparable to that of an independent state in the federal union. 

    We oppose efforts to confer statehood upon the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or expand statehood beyond the current fifty states. 

    We acknowledge that each state’s membership in the Union is voluntary. 

    We support the equal footing doctrine, co-equal with the original thirteen states, for all states coming into and having entered the Union as states. 

    We call for a return to the states and to the people all lands which are held by the federal government without authorization by the Constitution. 

  • STATE SOVEREIGNTY

    STATE SOVEREIGNTY

    The Tenth Amendment states: 

    “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.” 

    Note: The Constitution delegated few, enumerated powers to the Federal Government, reserving all remaining powers to the States and the people. Thus, powers of the Federal were the exception. 

    Our federal republic was created by joint action of the several states. It has been gradually perverted into a socialist machine for federal control in the domestic affairs of the states.  

    The federal government has no authority to mandate policies relating to state education, natural resources, transportation, private business, housing, health care, ad infinitum.  

    The states are the sovereigns who 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. 

    The General Defense and Welfare, Commerce, Necessary and Proper, and Supremacy clauses are not ambiguous opportunities for the general government to assume new roles, responsibilities, powers, and properties (RRPP).  These clauses only apply to the RRPPs enumerated in the Constitution and its ratified amendments, and treaties constitutionally ratified.  All RRPPs being exercised that cannot be found within the Constitution and its ratified amendments are violations of the Constitution and usurpation of the states’ RRPPs and sovereignty. 

    Only the states possess the authority to audit the Constitution for compliance and enforcement.  The states must validate all RRPPs that have been established in compliance with the Constitution. 

    If there is no amendment for the RRPPs being exercised (i.e., department, agency, office, or administrative entity) then these RRPPs and entities are direct violations of the Constitution. 

    We call upon the states of the Union to initiate this constitutional review process and provide clear directives to the general government requiring that they produce the necessary legislative measures to disband and dissolve all unconstitutional RRPPs.  The review only requires one state to initiate and call for the Constitutional review.

  • SANCTITY OF LIFE

    SANCTITY OF LIFE

    The Declaration of Independence states: 

    “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.” 

    We affirm the God-given legal personhood of all human beings, from fertilization to natural death, without exception. 

    The first duty of the law is to protect innocent life created in the image of God. No level of civil government may legalize or fund the taking of life without justification. Legalizing the termination of innocent life of the born or unborn, whether by abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, or suicide, is a direct violation of their unalienable right to life. 

    As to matters of rape and incest, we empathize with those abused and assert the need to provide immediate protection and care in a safe environment. Instead of the further violence of abortion, the mother and the child should be provided with compassionate care. We find it unconscionable to take the life of an innocent child for the crimes of his father. 

    We oppose the distribution and use of all abortifacients. 

    We oppose the use of third-party assisted reproduction that harms pre-born persons created in the process, involves surrogacy, or involves eggs or sperm from donors other than the spouse. 

    All funding, statutes, and regulations authorizing biomedical research involving human embryos for cloning and human enhancement must be repealed. 

    Constitution Party members who serve in elected and appointed positions are committed to the following: 

    In office, we shall only appoint to the judiciary and other positions of judicial and executive authority qualified individuals who publicly acknowledge and commit themselves to the legal personhood of all human beings. 

    In addition, we will do all that is within our power to encourage federal, state, and local government officials to protect the sanctity of the life of the pre-born through legislation, executive action, and judicial enforcement of the law of the land. We oppose the use of tax-payer funds at any level of government to support any local, state, federal, or foreign government entity or any other private organization or quasi-government entity, foreign or domestic, that advocates, encourages, or participates in the practice of abortion. 

    STATE VS. FEDERAL AUTHORITY

    Article IV of the Constitution guarantees to each state a republican form of government. Therefore, although a Supreme Court opinion is binding on the parties to the controversy as to the particulars of the case, it is not a political rule for the nation. As Roe v Wade was an illegitimate usurpation of authority, violating the natural right to life, so are all state laws that allow the destruction of innocent human life, born or unborn.

    We affirm both the authority and duty of Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in all cases involving the personhood of all human beings in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 2. 

    We condemn the misuse of federal laws against pro-life advocates and strongly urge the repeal of statutes like the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act as an unconstitutional expansion of federal power into areas reserved to the states or people by the Tenth Amendment.