http://www.constitutionparty.com RSS feeds for Constitution Party 60 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/41/Protecting-Citizens-Privacy.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=129&ModuleID=504&ArticleID=41 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=41&PortalID=0&TabID=129 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/41/Protecting-Citizens-Privacy.aspx (Note: This resolution was passed by the Constitution Party National Committee on March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina) Whereas, the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated...but upon probable cause..." and Whereas, the Federal government’s collection, compiling, and abuse of databases to snoop on law-abiding citizens is rapidly expanding. This includes monitoring law-abiding citizens’ bank deposits, cell phone usage, e-mail, air travel, school children, lawful gun purchases, health care, medical records, immunizations, fingerprints, DNA, and genetic tests. Most often, these databases are built using the Social Security number, and Whereas, there are renewed attempts by the Federal government, especially since 9/11, to impose a Federal ID on all citizens requiring States to have social security numbers on Drivers’ Licenses. The federal government often accomplishes the establishment of a database through mandates and grants to the State, and Whereas, corporations are also involved in the collection and selling of personal data without consent. The Social Security Act stipulates that the social security number is never to be used for identification purposes. Therefore let it be Resolved, that the Constitution Party supports the protection of a citizen’s privacy rights and opposes the use of the social security number for identification purposes and any attempt to create and impose a national ID. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Resolution passed by the Constitution Party National Committee, March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina   Webmaster Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:56:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:41 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/40/State-Model-Emergency-Health-Powers-Act.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=129&ModuleID=504&ArticleID=40 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=40&PortalID=0&TabID=129 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/40/State-Model-Emergency-Health-Powers-Act.aspx (Note: This resolution was passed by the Constitution Party National Committee on March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina) Whereas, the Bush administration and the Federal government are promoting the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) for enactment by the fifty states, which completely eliminates the safeguard of separation of powers and checks and balances. The MEHPA makes the governor a dictator, taking all powers of government including legislative, executive, and judicial, and Whereas, the MEHPA only allows the State Legislature to take action by a super majority vote sixty days after the governor declares a health emergency, and Whereas, the Legislature can only take action "upon finding that the occurrence of an illness or health condition that caused the emergency does not or no longer poses" a threat, which is extremely limiting, and Whereas, under MEHPA state and local health officers, along with Governors, are granted dictatorial levels of power with no appeals process to remedy their unilateral decisions to force people to receive medical treatment, vaccines, be isolated, quarantined; otherwise to be charged with a misdemeanor and possibly end up in jail, and Whereas, the MEHPA provides no religious or conscientious objections to medical treatment and vaccines, and Whereas, in MEHPA there is no recognition of parent’s rights and responsibilities with regard to their children. This is important when you consider that people possibly might be quarantined separately from their children, and Whereas, the MEHPA allows government to confiscate private property including food, fuel and clothing, and if so, without just compensation, and Whereas, alternative health options are completely left out of the MEHPA. There should be recognition that alternatives to standard medical treatments and vaccines, etc., are available, often highly effective and far less dangerous, and Whereas, the MEHPA provides for the collection of personal medical information, DNA, tests, etc., the privacy of which is not protected. MEHPA provides that the information will be turned over to the Federal government and used for research and end up in state and federal databases. This is a serious breach of our Fourth Amendment search, seizure, and privacy rights. Therefore, let it be Resolved, that the Constitution Party opposes all versions of the State Model Emergency Health Powers Act. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Resolution passed by the Constitution Party National Committee, March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina   Webmaster Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:54:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:40 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/39/Property-Rights-Land-and-State-Sovereignty.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=129&ModuleID=504&ArticleID=39 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=39&PortalID=0&TabID=129 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/39/Property-Rights-Land-and-State-Sovereignty.aspx (Note: This resolution was passed by the Constitution Party National Committee on March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina) Whereas, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and Whereas, James Madison identified the very definition of tyranny to be the unification of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of government, and Whereas, the present Federal administrative agencies and bureaucracies combine these three distinct and separate powers of government, virtually destroying all constitutionally protected rights and remedies formally available to its sovereign citizens, including a republican form of government within each state, and Whereas, Article I Section 8 clause 17 of the Constitution of the United States of America restricts the authority of the federal government over lands within admitted states of the Union to those purchased with the consent of the legislature of that State for certain limited, specified use, and Whereas, even before the Constitution was adopted, the admission of sovereign states of the Union on a equal footing was recognized by the Northwest Ordinance, and Whereas, vast portions of each State’s land, by default and usurpation, have come under the asserted authority of the Federal government, and Whereas, the usurpation and control of the state lands by federal bureaucracies, such as the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service has caused the closing of long-established roads, the closing of hundreds of logging and lumber operations, destruction of farm land, abandonment and loss of hundreds of mining operations and ranches, and destroying access to vast recreational areas, resulting in severe economic hardship and loss of billons of dollars to the local, state and national economies, and Whereas, this Federal tyranny has caused significant loss of local and state tax base, resulting in the reduction of basic local governmental services including police and fire protection, and Whereas, the policies of the Federal bureaucracies on land and forest mismanagement which include not allowing the cows to eat the grass to reduce fire hazards have set the Western states on fire, endangering and taking life and property, and Whereas, the federal government is extending the unconstitutional usurpation and land-grabbing in all fifty states through the implementation of various environmental legislative and administrative programs including but not limited to the so-called Clean Air and Water Act, the Environmental Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Wetlands Wildlife, and Wilderness legislation, the Heritage Rivers, Monuments and Antiquities Act, et cetera. Therefore, let it be Resolved that the Constitution Party supports and encourages State and local efforts to reestablish State and Constitutional control over lands within all sovereign States of the Union, and be it further Resolved, that the Constitution Party calls upon the Federal government to cease and desist its unconstitutional usurpation and control of the lands in the sovereign states, and be it further Resolved, that the Constitution Party calls upon the Federal government to limit its authority to lands defined by the Constitution, including Washington, D.C., territories, forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards and other needful buildings which are purchased with the consent of the State legislatures. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Resolution passed by the Constitution Party National Committee, March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina   Webmaster Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:53:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:39 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/38/CDC-Assault-on-Gun-Rights.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=129&ModuleID=504&ArticleID=38 http://www.constitutionparty.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=38&PortalID=0&TabID=129 http://www.constitutionparty.com/OurPrinciples/Resolutions/tabid/129/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/38/CDC-Assault-on-Gun-Rights.aspx (Note: This resolution was passed by the Constitution Party National Committee on March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina) Whereas, there is a new threat to gun rights that is now being pushed through state legislatures called the 2001 "National Strategy for Suicide Prevention" (NSSP) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Surgeon General, and the Center for Disease Control, and Whereas, this initiative is traceable to the 1993 United Nations World Health Organization Conference, and Whereas, Goal Five of the NSSP, "Promote Efforts to Reduce Access to Lethal Means and Methods of Self-Harm," states "If intervention is not possible when an individual is in a state of psychological pain, a self-destructive act may be prevented by limiting the individual’s access to the means or methods of self-harm…it may connote redesigning or altering the existing lethal means of self-harm currently available, and to others eliminating or limiting their availability…" and Whereas, the report says that 57% of suicides are committed with guns, and "between 45-50 percent of all U.S. households have a firearm inside the home…" and Whereas, Objective 5.2 of the NSSP states "By 2005, expose a proportion of households to public information campaign(s) designed to reduce the accessibility of lethal means, including firearms in the home". Therefore be it Resolved, that the Constitution Party recognizes this new threat to constitutionally protected gun rights and that the Constitution Party opposes any and all infringements of the God-given right to keep and bear arms. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Resolution passed by the Constitution Party National Committee, March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina   Webmaster Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:52:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:38