Fundamental beliefs
- This country was founded on specific principles including the right to property, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. These rights are granted by God, not the government.
- Individual control and collectivism/socialism are no more equal than freedom and slavery.
- The government has no money but that which is acquired through my efforts via taxation.
- Taxation is slavery period. When one is taxed for the work one performs, the time one spent earning that income is stolen from him/her. When that same income is then redistributed to causes which one abhors he/she is tyrannized.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson, Author of the declaration of Independence
- The government must be pushed back into its constitutionally appointed rolls with no variance. The tenth amendment says that the federal government only has the authority to perform the functions assigned to it in the constitution. Any other authorities given to the federal government by men are abhorrent.
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
- The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
- All people should have equal freedom to excel to the level of their God-given gifts and drive. No person should have to share the fruits the aforementioned without specific consent. There is no guarantee of equal results.
- The fundamental roles of the government are to preserve my liberty and protect me from foreign and domestic threat.
- I am assured freedom OF religion not freedom FROM religion.
- Right and wrong are absolutes.
- The second amendment to the Constitution speaks specifically about individuals
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46.