Herb Hocutt, Team Leader. This team provides a Constitutional moment during our monthly meetings and is the go to group for Constitutional questions.
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AlabamaOn.June 1, HB 425 became law. Itmoves the petition deadline fornewly qualifying parties, and nonpresidentialindependent candidates,from June to the second Tuesday inMarch, in presidential…Continue
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n the case of a true Republic, the “fire” of the state is charged with protection of life and property rights, protection of individual liberty, and, most of all, protection from government itself. Like fire, the state, left to its own devices and unrestrained, can burn the whole house down.
We Still Hold These Truths -- Class starting Aug 10th, 9:30 AM - Trussville Public Library -- intend to limit to 10 max will let you know how it goes.
Start your own group with these wonderful tools Book and Downloadable Leadership Guide @ http://www.westillholdthesetruths.org/ No fear - let's educate our families, neighbors and ourselves --- 2012 is coming.....
George Washington in his Farewell address and his warning against partisanship.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
We hold true to our constitutionalist Principles and place these virtues over blind loyalty to a Party "brand" and protecting the status quo of politics as usual. We vow to find ways to break the status quo of electing the same type of corrupt unprincipled carrier politicians; by beginning to recruit, and elect those who are true statesmen to political office throughout the entire political spectrum.
Thomas Jefferson
" On every question of construction, (let us)carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
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