Declaration
of Conservative Principles
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Declaration of Conservatism was adopted by the Board of Directors
of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies in its meeting
on August 9, 1998 in Dallas, Texas. It incorporates the fundamental
principles and reason for being for the National Federation
or Republican Assemblies and its state chapters.
Fundamental
Declaration Of Conservatism
For
over two hundred years, the United States of America has been
the model of freedom for the world. Many sacrificed everything
they possessed to come to this land of the free. Our system
of freedom, God-given rights, and limited government has been
the envy of freedom-loving people worldwide.
But,
America has changed. Government, at all levels, now does for
us what we should rightfully do for ourselves. Our political
leaders compete to provide the most socialistic services to
constituents. As government has provided us with more, our political
leaders and judiciary have usurped more power, and we have forfeited
many of our precious freedoms; as a result, our Republic has
deteriorated into a democracy.
America
is being surrendered to a new world order. Our leaders, both
elected and unelected, view themselves as international reformers
rather than statesmen or patriots. They have a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, seeking the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over the states and the citizens thereof. To prove this,
let the facts be submitted to a sober nation:
They
do not honor God in the public forum and despise those that
do. They have lost their moral compass.
They
have ignored God's Law as the basis of the Common Law. They
have substituted a capricious and arbitrary judiciary for our
historic system of common justice. They have created excessive
volumes of laws without endorsing moral restraint. They have
established policies, which grant favor to the law-breaker over
the rights of the law-abiding.
They
have abandoned respect for the sanctity of human life. They
are destroying the family as the foundation of a free society
by establishing punitive economic policies. They have taxed
our children's children without representation. They have created
class envy through a redistribution of wealth by unjust, inequitable
taxes.
They
do not respect the natural, beautiful differences between men
and women. They have dishonored motherhood by forcing many mothers
from their homes and children into the workplace. The nurturing
love of families for children has been stolen by strangers in
day care.
They
have perverted our ballot processes with no accountability or
traceable records. Their campaign reforms have established a
protected class of career politicians who cannot be fairly challenged.
They
have enacted innumerable, burdensome regulations.
They
have undermined the sovereignty of our separate States and forced
them into collective submission to a federal agenda through
economic blackmail.
They
have corrupted public education by establishing and protecting
corrupt monopolies that teach socialist adaptation and collectivism
over fundamental principles and eternal truth. The rich history
of our God-fearing citizenry has been supplanted by humanist
revisionism. They have mandated instruction in a new set of
values, which will destroy our great constitutional Republic
in the future.
They
have established policies of confiscation without due process.
They have violated our fundamental rights of private property
and security in our persons, houses, papers, and effects.
They
have enacted laws that infringe upon our right to keep and bear
arms - a right that serves as a protection against the tyranny
of an oppressive government.
As members
of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, we firmly
establish this national standard for the Conservative movement
- an anchor upon which we rest our common beliefs.
Liberty
demands the greatest of self-restraint and individual responsibility.
Our freedom is the greatest gift we as citizens can give to
future generations.
Conservatism
without a moral anchor is baseless and void. We assert that
God's Law, as recorded in the Holy Scriptures, is supreme in
our land. Our laws and our system of justice must demonstrate
a reverence for Divine Law in the Public Forum, without prejudice
to any single denomination.
Government
is to be a servant of the People and not a fearful master. Our
Founding Fathers were precise in their beliefs regarding the
responsibilities of the citizen versus the obligations of government.
We must interpret our Constitution in light of the founders'
intent. Our Constitution is an instrument of delegated powers;
thus, our federal government only has powers granted to it and
rigidly constrained by the Constitution.
The
delegated role of our federal government is to establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity.
We
hold to Principle over politics. We must elect and support statesmen
over unprincipled politicians.
We
must restrain ourselves from borrowing from the future to finance
the indulgences of today.
We
must protect the institution of marriage as ordained by God,
being one man and one woman joined in a Holy contract, as the
cornerstone of civilization.
We
believe that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life
which cannot be infringed, and that this same sacred right,
which extends to all persons regardless of age or infirmity,
does not allow for euthanasia, assisted suicide, or public funding
for any of these practices.
We
oppose any form of world government, including our participation
in the United Nations. Our officials, both elected and unelected,
must always act to preserve the sovereignty of these United
States, provide for a strong national defense and protect our
borders.
Autonomous
states are a protection against federal usurpation of citizens'
rights, and we must reinstate the states' sovereign authority
over public lands within their borders.
We
believe that the responsibility of citizenship does not end
at the ballot box, but rather assert that the price of freedom
is eternal vigilance. The good citizen is one who actively labors
to ensure freedom for ourselves and our posterity.
We
must restore the Constitutional Republic - not endure a democracy.
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was
this: It connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles
of civil government with the principles of Christianity”
~ John Qunicy Adams ~
