I read the platform of the Constitution Party and do not agree with several issues. It favors non interventionist policy, agreed. It favors protectionist trade and tarriff, disagree. I disagree with its euthanasia policy, if one is terminally ill, he/she should be able to die with dignity. That is a right not given to society or social welfare. I don't entirely agree with its policy on the death penalty. It indicates the death penalty is only sentenced to protect innocent life. I think it applies to traitors also, even when there is no life lost. I think it should apply to terrorists that have been convicted of attemped mass destruction acts. I don't agree with its policy on pornagraphy, drugs, or offensive behavior inside the home. I do not agree with repeal of the 17th Amendment on the election of Senators by popular vote of the State. I think these are enough reasons not to join the Constitution Party alone.
Curious about what you consider a traitor! Some would consider me a traitor for voting for a third party candidate.
What is it about repealing the 17th you don't like?
This country today is being run by special interest groups, and repealing the 17th would be a start in changing that.
We are all familiar with the horizontal separation of powers, which divided the power to govern into three branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, leaving no one department of government with enough power to abuse the people. Remember, the abuses and oppressions of King George were fresh on their minds. Sovereignty was the battle cry.
However, today few know that the Founders also divided that same power vertically between the Federal Government and the State Governments. How would you protect the state governments?
The Founders did it by granting each state, large or small, two representatives in the Federal Government. These representatives were called Senators. They were chosen by the legislature of each state. They answered only to that states' legislature! This placed them above the influence of special interest groups, the media, and, to a great extent, political party bias, since members of all political parties in the state legislature chose them. The state’s representatives were given power to veto or monitor all three branches of the federal government!!
After all, each piece of legislation, all judicial appointees, and all Executive appointments had to be approved by the Senate. As for national and foreign issues, all treaties, and all military affairs had to have the Senate's approval. Thus the STATES had a hand in all Federal affairs and each state’s sovereignty was protected. In this manner the legislator you elected from your neighborhood had a direct influence in all federal affairs and could be held accountable by you, his neighbor.
Hence, the Constitution dictated that the Senators were to be chosen by the state legislatures and the federal government was granted only a limited number of powers. Only powers requiring cooperation of all the states-- national defense, foreign affairs, and interstate commerce. The remainder of powers was given to the states and/or held in reserve by the people.
Because of the Founders concern over the central governments ability to abuse the people, and because the states were closer to the citizens of each state and thus they could more readily be held accountable by the people, the Founders gave the states the responsibility of directly governing the people.
This all-important vertical separation of powers, dividing the power to govern vertically between the States and the Federal Government, was lost with the passage of the l7th Amendment
Since the passing of the 17th Amendment in 1913, the Federal Government has exploded out of control, usurping the rightful power of State Governments to govern the people. As the power was wrested from state elected officials, it was transferred to non-elected Federal officials who do not answer to the people because the people do not vote them in nor out of office. Thus any government official not directly reporting to a specific elected official is out of the control of the people. From these officials there is no redress!
We need to return to the Founding Fathers Success Formula, which kept government leaders “chained down by the Constitution” and accountable to the people. We can do this by repealing the 17th Amendment.
Be informed! Use this great medium called the internet to search for the truth.
You won't get it by watching the three networks or Fox News