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Thomas Jefferson:
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John F. Kennedy:
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| | "The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." |
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Politics: link to full definition
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| | The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs. |
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Do The Right Thing Party Founding Principle:
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| | Loyalty to the truth; a persistent commitment to the Constitution; and applying positive, constructive, efficient and effective solutions to address our opportunities and problems, are the three key requirements to sustain our Democracy. |
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Foreign Policy Agenda - Party Platform Top Ten List:
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| 1 | Bring home the troops, while preserving victory in Iraq, in a safe and orderly manner with dignity and honor. |
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| 2 | Resolve the nuclear weapons threat posed by North Korea and Iran. |
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| 3 | Mitigate terrorism by capturing the leaders of terrorism and stopping their culture of hate. |
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| 4 | Increase human intelligence assets in Homeland Security to better defend against terrorism. |
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| 5 | Decrease reliance on foreign oil by increasing domestic energy production from all potential sources. |
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| 6 | Assist world leaders in improving the human rights of oppressed peoples. |
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| 7 | Facilitate a peaceful solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict. |
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| 8 | Improve the balance of trade and declining value of the dollar. |
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| 9 | Work with world leaders to resolve environmental and potential global warming issues. |
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| 10 | Endeavor to improve relations with our western hemisphere neighbors in Cuba and Venezuela. |
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Domestic Agenda - Party Platform Top Ten List:
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| 1 | Require Congress to cite the specific constitutional authority to act in every bill it legislates. |
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| 2 | Open the continental shelf, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the US West for oil production. |
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| 3 | Save energy by facilitating the expansion of passenger and freight rail transportation. |
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| 4 | Give parents school vouchers for the taxes they paid to best decide where to educated their children. |
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| 5 | Privatize the heath care system Congress has created for itself and make it available to every citizen. |
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| 6 | Promote energy saving ideas like a national four-day workweek, expanding work-at-home, etc.. |
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| 7 | Require all Congressional legislation regarding a particular subject to be voted as a separate bill. |
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| 8 | Require Congress to desegregate seating by party and be in session only when a quorum is present. |
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| 9 | Send a complete paper copy of the tax code to taxpayers annually or establish a 17 percent federal flat tax. |
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| 10 | Send taxpayers annually a "Social Security Trust Fund" financial statement or privatize Social Security. |
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Facts in Evidence:
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| | Congress appears to be a group of 535 "kings" instead of the servants of the people they ought to be. |
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| | People throughout the world prefer freedom over dictators and peace over war when given the choice. |
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| | Americans would prefer good, effective and long-lasting results rather than a good speech. |
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| | The American people overwhelmingly want genuine solutions instead of relentless partisan bickering. |
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| | There have been no terrorist threats accomplished in the Unitied States since 911. |
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| | An Islamic democratic free state is emerging in Iraq and we helped to create it with great sacrifice. |
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Independent Commentary - 2008 Presidential Election ...
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In a Democracy:
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| | Sovereign power is lodged in an aggregate assembly consisting of free members of a community. |
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| | The rule of law is manifested in an independent judiciary, a free press and a system of checks and balances on leaders through free elections and separation of powers among the branches of government. |
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The United States Constitution sets forth a democracy based on the "Rule of Law":
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| | "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State." [Article. IV, Section 1] "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." [Article. IV, Section 2] "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..." [Article. IV, Section 4] |
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| | "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
[Article. I] "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States ... and ... shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective Numbers." [Article. I, Section 2, Clause 1] "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State..." [Article. I, Section 3] |
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| | "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." [Article. II.] |
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| | "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." [Article. III.] |
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| | There are twenty seven (27) amendments to the Constitution and the first ten (10) are said to be the "Bill of Rights" which came into effect more than 216 years ago on December 15, 1791. The Bill of Rights limits the powers of the Federal government of the United States, protecting the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory. |
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What is NOT in the United States Constitution:
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| | Mention of the existence, rights or priviledges of any political party. |
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| | Any power of the President to declare war. |
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| | The power of Congress to appropriate monies for health, welfare, education, environment, farming & energy. |
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On Communism and Socialism:
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| | "A social system in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively and political power is exercised by the whole community."
Microsoft Bookshelf 1994 [context: the government is the community] |
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| | "Socialism is a stage on the way to communism, which is the more advanced stage of human organization."
Karl Marx |
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| | "How do you tell a communist? Well, it`s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It`s someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Ronald Reagan |
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| | "The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery."
Winston Churchill |
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| | "I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
Hugo Chavez |
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| | "Require oil companies to take a reasonable share of their record breaking windfall profits and use it to provide direct relief worth $500 for an individual and $1,000 for a married couple."
Barack Obama [context: reallocation of wealth by governmental confiscation of property] |
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On Liberty:
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| | "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin |
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| | "Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
Ronald Reagan |
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| | "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
Winston Churchill |
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On abortion:
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| | "America did not invent human rights. It is the other way around. Human rights invented America."
Jimmy Carter |
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| | "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
Ronald Reagan |
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| | "A calloused attitude toward the unborn permits a calloused attitude toward the newborn, the elderly, the deformed,- as well as toward all principles of liberty."
Ron Paul |
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