In America, we have a proud and noble tradition of freedom, liberty, and love of God and country. In the tradition of Martin Luther, who nailed 95 theses to the Wittenberg Church in protest of the excesses of the Catholic Church, I present these 95 theses for the restoration of our Republic.
In recent generations, our American vision has been lost on leaders more concerned about political correctness than the constitution, people who seek to make America into a socialist nation.
Our history has been diluted and polluted. Our legacy is quickly being forgotten by a generation indoctrinated by a liberal education establishment and an even more liberal media. In my lifetime, it is very possible that America could lose any resemblance to a free nation.
However, as was the case with Martin Luther and the principles of Christianity, the principles of political liberty are not some vague notions that we have no idea how to achieve. Rather, they have been tested and tried by our forefathers. That history remains a testament to what can be achieved when the role of the government is constitutionally limited, morality and family is respected, and God is honored.
We don't need to re-invent the wheel, all America needs to do, is return to it's first principles and once again be the Great Republic. It is with this thought that I offer my 95 theses.
Preface
1) The Constitution is the supreme law of the land and it is by that, not polls or political correctness, that our laws should be judged.
2) Congress should limit its power to those specifically granted to it in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
3) As such, the Congress should privatize or return to the states, all federal lands.
4) As such, Congress should abolish departments that by their nature and function are unconstitutional such as the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Departments of Energy, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
5) Congress should cease the over-regulation of business and agriculture, and also cease the subsidization thereof,
6) The federal government should limits its role in fighting drugs to stopping the importation of harmful substances into the country or across state lines as this is the authority granted to it under the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution. (Article 1, Section 8)
7) The Congress is given no authority to make a law prohibiting free speech, therefore, the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act should be repealed.
8) Regulations on the ownership of firearms by private citizens other than restricting this right from felons are unconstitutional and should be repealed.
9) The War on Terrorism is vital to the future of this Country.
10) While this war must be prosecuted with due vigilance, such efforts must not run in contravention to the Constitution of the United States. For without liberty and freedom, as guaranteed by the Constitution, our nation becomes no different than any other and loses those qualities that makes it worthy of defense.
11) Therefore, the President should seek a Declaration of War from Congress as required by the Constitution and should in no other way initiate hostilities against any other nation.
12) Furthermore, law enforcement must limit its actions to those which are in accordance with the Constitution and its Amendments.
13) The Supreme Court's ruling are to, ideally, interpret the laws written by the legislative branch, as well as the Constitution, as they were written.
14)In recent years, the Court has become an activist instrument of the political left that writes law rather than explaining them.
15) This court is the greatest danger to American liberty as they are removed from the effect of the political process, and political leaders refuse to place a check on their unlimited power.
16) Such a dangerous institution must be checked. Therefore:
17) Supreme Court actions to overturn laws passed by duly elected representatives of the people must only be made when a clear, legal consensus exists on the issue in question. . Therefore, in no case should the Supreme Court be allowed to overturn the laws of a state or Congress by a 5-4 decision, rather the assent of at least seven justices should be required.
18) In addition, if a court ruling is evidently and clearly unconstitutional, the Congress of the United States should have authority to overturn it by a 2/3 vote.
19) As the Supreme Court has almost absolute power, a limit should be placed on the number of years that a justice may serve. While the court should not be elected, this check is necessary, so that absolute power doesn't corrupt absolutely as it has done in the past.
20) The Constitution is a sacred document that has been hallowed by the blood of the patriots from the Revolution to this present day.
21) As such, it should only be amended through the prescribed amendment process, not judicial fiat or legislative negligence.
22) Our founders declared that "all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights".
23) Thus, our nation presupposed the existence of an almighty creator and acknowledged Him as the basis for rights that even the government had to respect and couldn't violate with impunity, even if it served their purposes.
24) As such our liberty is imperiled as we move to a humanistic view of man that says there is no God and we are free to act as we choose.
25) Accordingly, we have seen a reduction in personal freedom in the past 40 years since Supreme Court decisions removing prayer and the ten commandments from public schools.
26) While it is important that no person be compelled to observe any religion, it is also vital our nation acknowledge and honor God.
27) As such, appropriate legislation should be passed so that the Ten Commandments may be displayed on public property without unnecessary legal wrangling, and that prayers may be said before graduation or school days without controversy.
28) In short, our nation must return to recognizing that God is not to be shunned from the public sphere but welcomed. For we all need His help and guidance as even non-religious founding fathers such as Jefferson and Franklin recognized.
29) We are endowed by God with "certain inalienable rights" to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". These rights do not spring from our mother's choice.
30) Therefore, unborn children should be protected by law and abortion should be illegal unless necessary to save the life of the mother.
31) A large number of our public schools have become substandard, despite increasing revenues, no longer educating our children.
32) In every industry from fast food to Internet access, competition improves services and reduces cost.
33) Therefore, only by providing parents full access to all available schooling options through school choice can we see an improvement in our nation's public education system.
34) Racial peace and harmony is essential to the future of the United States of America
35) Racial preferences, quotas, and set-asides serve to divide Americans along racial lines and should be eliminated
36) The U.S. Census Bureau should cease and desist collecting data on the racial make-up of the United States. This is totally irrelevant to the constitution function of the Census Bureau in apportioning congressional districts.
37) For the sake of national security, there should be a five year freeze on immigration into the United States.
38) All immigrants to the United States are seeking a better life here, as such was not available in the land of their birth.
39) It is American values and American principles that creates American prosperity.
40) It is therefore reasonable and fitting that those who immigrate to our Country should assimilate into that American way of life which secures the prosperity they seek.
41) The failure of multilingualism in Canada is evident through the Quebec referendum that almost led to that country being ripped apart.
42) It becomes apparent that a national language is important to the survival and unity of a people.
43) Therefore, English must be the official language of the United States of America.
44) Every Society from ancient times which accepted homosexuality as an alternate lifestyle has been destroyed, as this is a sign of cultural corruption.
45) Homosexuality has been practiced from ancient times until this day, indeed there is no culture that has been free of it.
46) It is, therefore, not the practice of homosexuality but the public acceptance, thereof which must be guarded against.
47) While no laws should be passed to imprison or punish homosexuals for their actions, the government should cease public education programs which promote homosexuality.
48) Any laws that recognize two homosexuals as a stable family unit should be repealed.
49) Marriage should be preserved as a sacred institution between one man and one woman.
50) A key principle of American justice is Equal Justice under the law.
51) Therefore violence against racial and religious minorities should be punished. However, the penalties levied must not be greater than would be applied to any other person so that all may stand before the law as equal in value.
52) The Founding Fathers wisely prohibited income tax.
53) Our current income tax system has been found to punish achievement, and discourage hard work
54) This Progressive Income Tax along with the Capital Gains tax has discouraged saving and investment and encouraged spending.
55) The Progress Income Tax makes slaves of the American people, allowing the government to seize a percentage of every person's money which the government itself determines, thus giving the government theoretical control of all money earned by citizens of the United States.
56) The Income tax has served as a pretext for violating the Fourth Amendment.
57) While a Flat Income Tax is superior to a Progressive Income Tax, it can not overcome the moral and Constitutional issues inherent with an Income Tax.
58) Therefore the Federal Income Tax should be replaced with a National Retail Sales Tax.
59) Thomas Jefferson wisely declared that the government that governs best, governs least.
60) Government has become a drag on the economy, increasing prices on goods and consumers while hurting the working men and women of the United States.
61) Therefore, the role of government at all levels should be limited only to those functions which are vital to the preservation of life, liberty, and property.
62) Other nations place trade sanctions on our products, goods, and services.
63) The United States should as much as possible trade freely with all nations.
64) However, free trade must be a two way street, for it to be truly free.
65) Therefore, country which place tariffs and quotas on our products should receive reciprocal treatment.
66) The United States has limited funds and resources.
67) The United States is unable to carry out the role it has taken upon itself, as the World's policemen.
68) A sense of foreign adventurism has led the US to send soldiers, either under the flag of this country or as UN peacekeepers to such boondoggles as Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and Haitti.
69) Such adventurism endangers the United States and its citizens, by making new enemies for our country in areas where good and evil are hard, if not impossible to define.
70) The United States involvement in foreign wars and in stopping "atrocities" has been extremely selective. While the deaths of a few hundred Kosavars brought on a US Attack that killed thousands of Serb civilians, the reactions to the Sudanese government's enslavement and slaughter of millions of Christians has been that of total silence and lack of care.
71) Therefore, the United States should cease immediately any military involvement in any country in which we have no compelling national interest.
72) When anywhere, in the Western Hemisphere, a dangerous figure arises in any nation, the United States has a legitimate national interest in preventing that dictator from wreaking havoc.
73) In the Middle East, the United States has a legitimate national interest as that region as it is a tinderbox that could easily ignite a third world war.
74) In Iraq, the United States has a legitimate national interest as intelligence reports link Saddam Hussein to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
75) In North Korea, the United States has a legitimate national interest as the government of that nation is run by mentally unstable people who are developing nuclear weapons.
76) In China, the United States has a legitimate national interest in preventing the expansion of Chinese political power, which would destabilize that region where America has fought two wars.
77) In India and Pakistan, the United States has a legitimate interest as two nuclear powers could easily destroy each other and set off a nuclear world war.
78) The United States has a legitimate nation interest whenever failure to act would seriously endanger the safety and security of the American Republic.
79) The United States, cannot, however remain silent in the face of brutality around the world.
80) The United States, can, and ought to place sanctions on countries whose behavior is reprehensible and intolerable.
81) Liberty comes from God, and from true liberty springs prosperity.
82) Many propose that China's limited economic liberty will lead to political liberty and religious freedom. However, this is the opposite of the way the world works.
83) No matter how much we trade with China, we're not moving that nation towards prosperity, only strengthening its dictatorship and building its military.
84) In consideration of their treatment of our goods and products, their despicable slave labor, forced abortion, and political and religious repression policies, we ought to place restrictions on trade with China.
85) The United Nations is a poorly managed organization, which, rather than promoting human freedom, is in fact, seeking to put the world under the firm hand of socialism.
86) Despite our generous contributions to the UN, we have been spurned by this organization as it continues to stand contrary to American interests and ideals while removing American representatives from the UN Human Rights Commission in favor of those appointed by brutal dictators.
87) We then ought to part with such an organization and give them no more of our citizens' hard-earned tax money.
88) In the Constitution, the power to regulate foreign trade is given to Congress, not a band of unelected foreigners that punish our president and congress for acting in the best interest of the American people.
89) The United States, should therefore withdraw from the World Trade Organization and regulate American trade in accordance to the US constitution.
90) Israel is the United States best friend and biggest supporter and should receive our continuing aid and encouragement in fighting their "war on terror".
On Other Matters
91) Global Warming and Environmental alarmism are not scientifically sound.
92) All government policies based on such should be repealed.
93) All candidates for public office should be required to pass a test on the Constitution, or they are unworthy of public support.
94) All citizens should study issues of political importance carefully, so that they can make a wise and informed decision, rather than being blown about by propaganda.
95) It is only in this way that this Republic can stand.