Posted on 08/04/2010 4:28:06 PM PDT by mdittmar
1. Resolved, That the federal government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the constitution, and the grants of power shown therein, ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and agents of the government, and that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers.
2. Resolved, That the constitution does not confer upon the general government the power to commence and carry on, a general system of internal improvements.
3. Resolved, That the constitution does not confer authority upon the federal government, directly or indirectly, to assume the debts of the several states, contracted for local internal improvements, or other state purposes; nor would such assumption be just or expedient.
4. Resolved, That justice and sound policy forbid the federal government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country—that every citizen and every section of the country, has a right to demand and insist upon an equality of rights and privileges, and to complete and ample protection of person and property from domestic violence, or foreign aggression.
5. Resolved, That it is the duty of every branch of the government, to enforce and practice the most rigid economy, in conducting our public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised, than is required to defray the necessary expenses of the government.
6. Resolved, That congress has no power to charter a national bank; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the laws and the will of the people.
7. Resolved, That congress has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states, and that such states are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution; that all efforts by abolitionists or others, made to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend to our political institutions.
8. Resolved, That the separation of the moneys of the government from banking institutions, is indispensable for the safety of the funds of the government, and the rights of the people.
9. Resolved, That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty, and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith; and every attempt to abridge the present privilege of becoming citizens, and the owners of soil among us, ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute-book.
Yes, but they have PROGRESSED beyond those primative beliefs.
My how they have fallen away. They (Democrats) are Judases, in Marxist masks, stealing the wealth of a nation to purchase power to steal more. God help us.
You mean...I’m a Democrat!?
Martin Van Ruin vs. the Panic of 1837.
The Whig (William Henry Harrison) won that one.
Even their 1960 platform looks pretty good by today’s standards.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29602
“1. Resolved, That the federal government is one of limited powers...”
Stopped right there.
This is actually very consistent with today’s deomgraphics.In the mid-eighteen hundreds the south was Democratic to the same degree that today it is Republican.
They still support #7 and #9.
Back in the day, Republicans called them “slave-ocrats.”
The democrat party has been infiltrated and perverted beyond recognition. It is a lost cause and must be emasculated and relegated to whining in the corner about the mean Conservatives.
Its just taking a while to bury the corpse.
I think it has already self-emasculated. :’)
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