Posted on 07/18/2005 12:45:17 PM PDT by IronChefSakai
CONSTITUTION PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO MEET IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
The Fall 2005 National Committee meeting of the Constitution Party will be held September 16 and 17 in Columbus, Ohio.
Please watch this space for details on registration and the meeting agenda.
On Friday, September 16 the the business meeting of the National Committee will be held. That evening there will be an awards banquet.
The meeting will reconvene on Saturday morning, September 17th. The National Committee meeting's official business will end with lunch on Saturday, followed by Howard Phillips' and The Conservative Caucus' special Constitution Day events. The weekend's activities will end at 5pm on Saturday
If you are interested in attending the Friday and Saturday events please call your state chairman for registration information. Contact information for your State Chairman can be found HERE
We look forward to seeing you in Columbus!
For More Info: http://www.constitutionparty.com/view_events.php
The LP's stance on Iraq and our Borders is why I "held my nose" and voted for Bush.
Make me dictator for a month. If I don't step down, you can shoot me. First thing I'd do is do a 1-for-1 comparison of every government agency. If there was no power given to the FedGov for an agency to have, then that agency would get the axe. Next, I'd assemble a legal team with One Mission and one mission only; scrub the US Legal Code of all laws that violate the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights on a plain reading of their words. No stare decisis allowed. Anything not meeting muster would be dumped into an omnibus reform bill to be sent to Congress for repeal.
If Congress refuses to pass said bill, they would be tried for treason and shot. On the floor of the Congress if necessary.
Next, all State laws that violate the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, would be required to be repealed. Failure to comply will result in that States expulsion from the Union and trade barriers erected. That oughta cut off the Blue States effectively. Red Counties in Blue States would be encouraged to band together and petition for Statehood.
If I had any time left after that, I'd try and get the popular election of Senators repealed. Get a "unanimous Consent" doctrine in place instead of simple majority. Instant Run off elections complete with an office vacancy provision if no clear majority winner can claim victory. Repeal the public dueling statutes. Small stuff.
Bad ideas in the Constitution Party platform:
1. "[t]o restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations". American jurisprudence is based on the English common law, not on any version of the Bible.
2. The idea that Roe v. Wade, regardless of its faults, violates the nation's "Charter". The United States wasn't created by royal grant, and thus does not have a "Charter".
3. The platform insists that judicial law-making power is violative of the Guarantee Clause, but also insists both that the legislature should not have the power to regulate abortion and that the CP would support an active judiciary to fight abortion. Which is it?
4. The repeal of all rule-making authority granted to "regulatory agencies, bureaucracies, private organizations, the Federal Reserve Board, international agencies, the President, and the judiciary."
5. The conquest and reoccupation of the Panama Canal Zone.
6. The platform states that the War on Drugs is a state criminal matter, which the federal government should fight. Which is it?
7. "Education as a whole, therefore, cannot be separated from religious faith."
8. The retro-Electoral College, whereby faithless electors become essentially all-powerful.
9. The abridgement, on Fifth Amendment grounds, of the federal government's powers to impose any restrictions whatsoever on the use of land.
10. Support for anti-sodomy laws.
11. A prohibition upon military alliances.
12. A prohibition upon trade agreements.
13. The withdrawal of the United States from security guarantees for, e.g., Taiwan.
14. A requirement of a Congressional declaration of war for any use of military force whatsoever.
15. The withdrawal of US forces from the War on Terror.
16. The "calling" of all foreign debts.
17. The abolition of the FDA.
18. Opposition to the existence of HMOs.
19. The commendation of ex-Judge Roy Moore.
20. The reimposition of gold and silver coinage.
21. The prohibition of fractional reserve banking (!)
22. The repealment of the Federal Reserve Act.
23. The call for a federal war on pornography.
24. The call for government-mandated standards of decency.
25. The acknowledgement that "each state's membership in the Union is voluntary."
26. The withdrawal of the United States from all trade agreements and arbitration bodies.
27. Mandatory price supports for domestic goods, by punitive tariffs on imports.
28. Opposition to "multinational corporations".
29. The denial that the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified.
30. The abolition of the IRS, combined with opposition to any form of flat tax, national sales tax, or VAT.
31. A direct tax upon states, proportional to their population in the Union.
32. Opposition to the War on Terror.
This is what I saw on a first glance-through.
Wow. I haven't seen that much Jew-Hate since the last time I was over on one of those other forums.
No, it doesn't. Art. I, §10 forbids the states from issuing paper money.
Good Bushbot...good boy!
What's even funnier is that 13 years later the Republicans STILL haven't learned.
No IQ requirements I presume.
Whackjob parties have been with us for two centuries. Their existence has nothing to do with reality only gullibility.
Those two provisions together would destroy every financial institution in the country.
11. A prohibition upon military alliances.
So we couldn't have accepted the assistance of France to help us beat the British and win our independence?
28. Opposition to "multinational corporations".
There goes my job!
32. Opposition to the War on Terror.
Surrender? This isn't France!!
This Party also filed suit to challenge the 2004 result in Ohio, which cost our state a lot of money. I suppose they were delusional enough to think their moonbat candidate beat George W. Bush!
Also they seem more interested in a Kerry victory in 04.. What I would do is form a party that has some ideals of the LP and the CP.. Bascailly have a party that promotes a government it's own business but would support the war on terror (Iraq) and tough on the borders..
Columbus just banned so called "assault rifles" and the NRA cancelled their convention in that city. The Constitution Party and Columbus seem to be a contradiction in terms.
If there is any hope for our country we have got to stop this sort of defeatist, brainwashed thinking.
I've been as guilty of it as anyone.
Both of these parties are taking our country in a direction I believe most of us do not want. We have let them convinced us that they are our only hope.
It was never intended by our founders to be so. The hope was to be held in trust by the people and our Creator.
While their methods differ it has become clear their destination for us, our children, our country, our freedom and our national sovereignty is the same.
I have found my biggest regrets in life have come making decisions that I knew in my heart was wrong to start with while hoping things would turn out for the best.
When we vote for the lesser of two evils we are still voting for evil.
What we need is a rebellion.
The place to start is at the ballot box. We need to take back our vote.
We need to say to them no more. We're through buying your brainwashing techniques .
A Democrat may win but, it won't be because I voted for someone other than a Republican.
It'll be because misguided Americans wasted their vote by settling for one of two evils.
They're not going to use their lies to make me a party to the enslavement planned for in mine, your's and our children's future.
If either of these two parties take our country to hell it'll be because you and other American citizens voted for them, not because I didn't and voted for someone else.
The NRA just pulled their convention out of Columbus. Maybe if the Constitution Party did so too it would sound a stronger message.
"Whackjob parties have been with us for two centuries."
I agree the dnc and the rnc have done nothing to promote the LIBERTY given our NATION by God.
"Their existence has nothing to do with reality only gullibility."
Excellent point!
'swhat I thought. The Party must be a bit selective in the parts of the Constitution it approves of.
They don't need anything that big.
Sounds like the Founders set a gold standard to me.
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