We deny that civil government has the authority to set wages and prices; so doing is inconsistent with principles of individual liberty and the free market. The Constitution Party Platform can viewed in it’s entirety here.
Constitution Party Platform – Veterans
The Constitution Party appreciates the contributions of our servicemen and veterans to the preservation of American freedom. We shall continue to recognize their contributions to the national welfare by providing equitable pay and benefits to our military personnel, and generous…
Constitution Party Platform – Terrorism and Personal Liberty
America is engaged in an undeclared war with an ill-defined enemy (terrorism), a war which threatens to be never ending, and which is being used to vastly expand government power, particularly that of the executive branch, at the expense of…
Constitution Party Platform – Taxes
The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.” In Article I,…
Constitution Party Platform – Tariffs & Trade
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states that Congress shall have the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others these Constitutional powers. We oppose, therefore, the unconstitutional transfer of authority over…
Which is it?
As I’ve said countless times before, I’m no fan of President Bush. However, that’s no reason to shun critisizing Kerry. Here’s the latest thing I can’t figure out. He’s saying the President screwed up and allowed 300 tons of explosives…
Constitution Party Platform – State Sovereignty
Our federal republic was created by joint action of the several states. It has been gradually perverted into a socialist machine for federal control in the domestic affairs of the states. The federal government has no authority to mandate policies…
Constitution Party Platform – Statehood
We oppose any effort to confer statehood on the District of Columbia or any representation in Congress comparable to that of an independent state in the federal union. We oppose efforts to confer statehood upon the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico…
Constitution Party Platform – Social Security
The Constitution grants no authority to the federal government to administrate a Social Security system. The Constitution Party advocates phasing out the entire Social Security program, while continuing to meet the obligations already incurred under the system. Until the current…
Constitution Party Platform – Religious Freedom
Article I of the Bill of Rights reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Our Constitution grants no authority to the federal government either to grant or deny the religious…
Constitution Party Platform – Pornography
I’m sure Vox is no fan of this part of the platform, as it’s not the most libertarian of views: Pornography, at best, is a distortion of the true nature of sex created by God for the procreative union between…
Constitution Party Platform – Personal and Private Property Security
We affirm the Fourth Amendment right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, including arbitrary or de facto registration, general and unwarranted electronic surveillance, national computer databases, and national…
Constitution Party Platform – Money and Banking
Money functions as both a medium of exchange and a symbol of a nation’s morality. The Founding Fathers established a system of “coin” money that was designed to prohibit the “improper and wicked” manipulation of the nation’s medium of exchange…
Constitution Party Platform – The Judiciary
The United States Constitution does not provide for lifetime appointment of federal judges, but only for a term of office during good behavior. We support Congressional enforcement of the Constitutional rule of good behavior and to restrain judicial activism by…
Constitution Party Platform – Immigration
We affirm the integrity of the international borders of the United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of…