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.
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!