Citing
the failure of both the Democrats and Republicans in
addressing the needs of working families, the Constitution
Action Party seeks to blend economic populism with a
healthy dose of fundamental Christian authority to govern
morals and social behavior.
OFFICIAL
PLATFORM STATEMENT
FROM THE OFFICIAL WEB PAGE
CAP'S MANIFESTO
1.God
is the source of all authority. Those who seek to displace
or ignore God in the public forum are working de facto
against the interests of the nation. We will strive
to make this fact clear at every turn to our fellow
citizens.
2.The consolidation of power by our central government
is constitutionally illegitimate. We will work to redistribute
power in the manner intended by our founders.
3.The
usurpation of executive and legislative powers by the
judicial branch, at all levels of our federal system,
is similarly illicit and fundamentally incompatible
both with the dispassion and the life tenure of our
judges. In one way or the other, we will remove this
incompatibility.
4.Racism,
including reverse discrimination, is evil and essentially
at odds with American ideals. It can be extirpated from
our national life, however, not through the power of
the central government, which has simply planted the
seeds of new racism as it worked to defeat the old,
but through the power of the family, rightly taught
to see all human beings as children of God.
5.Militarism,
except in defense of our national integrity and freedom,
is an offense against Christian meekness, which will
inherit the earth. We can approve, therefore, neither
of planned military weakness, tempting aggression against
our national integrity, nor of aggressive policies directed
toward perfecting an imperfectible world.
6.Peace
is a fruit of the tree of justice. We will tirelessly
promote the adoption of political and economic mechanisms
tending toward the fair reward of labor in all parts
of the international economic system. Preserving international
peace will free up resources for the fair reward of
labor at the same time it reduces the need for military
solutions.
7.Educating
children is, first of all, the responsibility of their
parents and, secondly, of that level of government closest
and most accountable to their parents. We will work
to reduce and if possible eliminate federal involvement
in primary and secondary education. We will also resist
national organizations, public or private, which seek
to instill in our children values inimical to traditional,
family-centered values.
8.Legitimate
government authority includes the power to tax for the
maintenance of constitutional state functions. Taxation
is, however, economically destructive in principle,
so the state must keep its tax burdens at the lowest
possible level and the overall burden of taxes must
be shifted towards those levels of government closest
and most accountable to the people. Nor does the power
of the state to tax remove the personal obligation to
charity. Soulless states will not stand judgment; no
civil servant may stand in our stead.
9.Sexual
activity is blessed by God only within the marital bond
between man and wife. All other sexual activity, including
sexually explicit or suggestive reading materials, entertainment
or other media with prurient or pornographic content,
is in one way or the other, sooner or later socially
and personally destructive, and especially in its tendency
towards the systematic degradation of women, the wellspring
of human life on earth. We will fight against media
and entertainment institutions flooding our culture
with destructive views of sexuality.
10.Legitimate
governments have delegated to them, by the Author of
life, authority to take the life of the guilty to protect
the life and security of the innocent, and to expend
and take life when necessary to defend the nation's
sovereign existence. Individuals may take all necessary
means to defend their own lives or the lives of their
families and neighbors. All other taking of life, including
abortion, is a usurpation of divine authority and therefore
a matter of the utmost gravity. A nation which systematically
endorses or engages in such usurpation invites divine
retribution and imperils its existence.
