2024 – 2028

national platform

We declare the platform of the Constitution Party to be centered on the principles found in these historical documents:

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
THE BILL OF RIGHTS

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Foundation of liberty & Supreme law of the land

Kicking tyranny off the continent
Since 1775.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights interpreted according to the original intent of the Framers of the American Constitutional Republic. These documents are the foundation of Liberty and are the Supreme Law of the Land.

Established 1992.

the sole purpose of government

The sole purpose of government, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, is to secure our unalienable rights given us by our Creator. When Government grows beyond this scope, it is usurpation, and liberty is compromised.

We believe the major issues we face today are best solved by a renewed allegiance to the original intent of these founding documents.

We invite you to read our platform below, organized by the clauses found in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY

Sanctity of Life

Natural Family

Religious Freedom

Education

The Constitution of the United States delegates no explicit authority to the federal government to tax or fund education, or to regulate education. All such powers are reserved to the states, or to the people of the states, under the Tenth Amendment.

THE PRINCIPLES

The Constitution grants the federal government NO authority over Education.

Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution, 1787: 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.”

THE PROBLEM

Federal control of Education has long been championed by communists and humanists as a means of overtaking and corrupting our American way of life.

The State does not own children, and it has no rightful claim over the direction of their education, particularly when such education is privately funded or directed within the home.

THE SOLUTION

The family is the first and foundational unit of government, with parents bearing the full responsibility and authority to educate their children as a matter of natural and divine law.

The Constitution Party calls upon the legislatures of all fifty states to nullify, reject, and repeal any existing tax-funded programs that subsidize private, religious, or home education, and to refrain from enacting any such programs in the future.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

The Constitution Party is committed to appealing to the Tenth Amendment in all issues regarding Education in America. It will work to nullify, reject, and repeal any legislation which seeks to usurp unconstitutional authority over education, at both the federal and state level.

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Personal & Private Property

A MORE PERFECT UNION

Bring Government back to the People

The closer civil government is to the people, the more responsible, responsive, and accountable it is likely to be.

THE PRINCIPLES

Constitution: Articles I – IV outlines the limited powers which the states gave to the federal government. Article I, Section 8 lists the specific and limited powers given to Congress.

The Tenth Amendment clearly affirms that “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.

THE PROBLEM

The federal government, under both ruling parties, has taken more and more control over rights which are not authorized by the Constitution. Regionalization has also removed decision-making powers from the people and their elected officials.

THE SOLUTION

Agencies which exceed the limited powers of the federal government must be defunded and dismantled. Policies and regulations which exceed the limited powers of the federal government must also be removed.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

We pledge to be faithful to this constitutional requirement and to work methodically to restore to the States and to the people their rightful control over legislative, judicial, executive, and regulatory functions that are not constitutionally delegated to the federal government.

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Statehood

State Sovereignty

ESTABLISH JUSTICE

Judiciary

Crime

Drug Abuse

Gambling

Obscenity & Sex Oriented Businesses

DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY

Character and Moral Conduct

It is imperative that members and nominated candidates representing the Constitution Party and its state affiliates recognize the importance of demonstrating good character in their own lives.

THE PRINCIPLES

John Adams (2nd President and Signer of the Declaration): “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

He also counselled: “The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge–I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”

THE PROBLEM

Public respect and esteem toward public officials have fallen to a shameful level. The Constitution Party finds that a cause of this national state of disgrace is the deterioration of personal character among government leaders, exacerbated by the lack of public outcry against immoral conduct by public office holders.

THE SOLUTION

Our party leaders and public officials must display exemplary qualities of honesty, integrity, reliability, moral uprightness, fidelity, prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, self-restraint, courage, kindness, and compassion. If they cannot be trusted in private life, neither can they be trusted in public life.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

The Constitution Party will hold elected officials accountable for their behavior and conduct, both public and private. We will also require the same from our candidates.

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ELECTION REFORM

The Constitution Party seeks the restoration of an electoral process that is controlled at the state and local level and is beyond manipulation by federal judges and bureaucrats.

THE PRINCIPLES

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing* Senators.”

THE PROBLEM

The Constitutional balance of power on this matter has been destroyed by the 17th Amendment. The States no longer have a representative at the Federal level.

THE SOLUTION

Each citizen should have the right to seek public office in accordance with the qualifications set forth in federal and state constitutions. Additional restrictions and obligations governing candidate eligibility and campaign procedures burden unconstitutionally the fairness and accountability of our political system.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

The Constitution Party will fight for Free and Equal Elections; safeguard our elections from computer fraud and mail-in ballot fraud. Click below to see more detailed information.

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ELECTORAL COLLEGE

The Constitution Party seeks a restoration of this electoral process for the choosing of the President and the Vice President of the United States.

THE PRINCIPLES

Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution states, in part:

“Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.”

This established the Electoral College.

THE PROBLEM

The Constitution does not provide for the election of the President and Vice President of the United States by popular vote, but rather by the selection of “Electors” according to rules adopted by each state’s legislators.

THE SOLUTION

Under the Electoral College, no single faction or region of the country can elect a president, ensuring broad representation across the United States. The People must remove the General Ticket System and Defeat the National Popular Vote proposal.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

The Constitution Party encourages states to eliminate the “general ticket” system and return to the procedure intended by the Framers; and will work to defeat the National Popular Vote in individual state legislatures.

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Congressional Reform

Congress must once again be accountable to the people and obedient to the Constitution, repealing all laws that delegate legislative powers to regulatory agencies, bureaucracies, private organizations, the Federal Reserve Board, international agencies, the president, and the judiciary.

THE PRINCIPLES

The Congress of these United States has become an overpaid, overstaffed, self-serving institution.

US Constitution, Article 6, Clause 3: Article VI, Clause 3 states “the Senators and Representatives . . . shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution . . .”

THE PROBLEM

Congress confiscates taxpayer funds to finance exorbitant and unconstitutionally determined salaries, pensions, and perks. Most members of Congress have become more accountable to the Washington establishment than to their constituents. Both chambers of Congress are all too often unresponsive and irresponsible, arrogantly placing themselves above the very laws they enact, and beyond the control of the citizens they have sworn to represent and serve.

THE SOLUTION

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment: this will return to state legislatures the function of electing the Senate.

By repealing the 17th Amendment, the U.S. Senate will return to being a body that represents the legislatures of the several states on the federal level and, thus restore a tremendously vital part of the designed checks and balances of power that our Constitution originally provided.

THE CONSTITUTION PARTY COMMITTMENT

The Constitution Party will seek to Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, support legislation to end the practice of attaching unrelated riders to bills, support legislation to require an accurate Congressional Record, and will work to removed congressional pensions and benefits.

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