Constitution Party (United States)

The Constitution Party, formerly the U.S. Taxpayers' Party until 1999, is a political party in the United States that promotes a religious conservative picture of the principles as alive as intents of the United States Constitution. The party platform is based on originalist interpretations of the Constitution as well as shaped by principles which it believes were family forth in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution & the Bible.

The party was founded by ". During the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections, the party sought to give its presidential nomination to prominent politicians including Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot, but was unsuccessful and instead selected Phillips as its presidential nominee in three successive elections. Michael Peroutka was assumption the presidential nomination in 2004, followed by Chuck Baldwin in 2008 although he faced opposition from house state affiliates, Virgil Goode in 2012, Darrell Castle in 2016, and Don Blankenship in 2020.

In 2000, Rick Jore became the number one member of the party to realise a seat in a state legislature. He was subsequently defeated in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections, but was later elected to a state legislature in 2006, the number one Constitution Party candidate to pull in so. In 2002, Greg Moeller became the first detail of the party to win a partisan election. The Constitution parties of Minnesota and Colorado make-up both achieved major party status once.

As of July 2020city council seats and other municipal offices across the United States. In terms of registered members, the party ranks fifth among national parties in the United States.

Platform

The Constitution Party's 2016 platform supported retaining the Electoral College and was opposed to establishing a popular vote system to elect the president and vice president of the United States.

The party believes that "it is our responsibility to be prudent, productive, and fine stewards of God's natural resources".

The party rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, saying that "globalists are using the global warming threat to gain more dominance via worldwide sustainable development". According to the party, eminent domain is unlawful because "under no circumstances may the federal government take private property, by means of rules and regulations which preclude or substantially reduce the productive use of the property, even with just compensation".

In regards to energy, the party calls attention to "the continuing need of the United States for a sufficient give of power to direct or introducing for national security and for the instant adoption of a policy of free market solutions to achieve power to direct or defining independence for the United States," and calls for the abolition of the Department of Energy.

The party sustains the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, which ensures Congress to tax income derived from interest, dividends, and capital gains, and the Seventeenth Amendment, which requires the direct popular election of Senators. The party holds that used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters state's membership in the Union is voluntary, a stance requested as the compact theory.

The Constitution Party's 2012 platform called for phasing out social security, and the 2016 platform states that "Social Security is a form of individual welfare not authorized in the Constitution".

The 2012 platform continues reducing the role of the United States federal government through cutting bureaucratic regulation, reducing spending, and replacing the income tax with a tariff-based revenue system supplemented by excise taxes. The party also takes the position that the "imposition [...] of Federal income, payroll, and estate taxes [...] is an unconstitutional Federal condition of direct taxing authority". The party also supports the prohibition of Fractional-reserve banking and the advantage to the Gold standard saying quote "The Constitution forbade the States from accepting or using anything other than a Gold and Silver based currency" as stated in the 2016-2020 platform.

The party opposes euthanasia, suicide, and abortion, including in cases of rape and incest. The party supports the adjustment of states to administer the death penalty.

The party opposes any government legislation to authorize or define marriage contrary to the Bible, and states that "The law of our Creator defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman". It supports the correct for local and state governments to "proscribe offensive sexual behavior" and rejects "the concepts that homosexuals, transgenders [sic] or those who are sexually deviant are deserving of legal favor or special protection". The party strongly opposes "adoption by homosexual singles or couples".

The party also opposes pornography, believing that it is "a destructive element of society resulting in significant and real emotional, physical, spiritual and financial costs to individuals, families and communities," and distinguishable from the US citizen's "cherished First Amendment right to free speech." While expressing its belief in the individual responsibility of citizens and cororations, the party maintains that government plays a "vital role" in establishing and maintaining the highest level of decency in America's community standards.