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The Liberal Capitalist Party is a Constitutionalist Party

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For over two hundred years our nation has endured politically and prospered primarily due to the fully codified, 7,600 word-long Constitution of the United States of America. Unlike many national constitutions around the world, the US Constitution provides an explicit, predictable, stable framework of rules not for the organization of society, but for the operation of the government itself.

For the US Constitution to continue as the legal bedrock of our nation, we can no longer allow politics to undermine the principle of the rule of law upon which the Constitution is predicated. Therefore the Liberal Capitalist Party supports the reading of the US Constitution, and indeed all law, based on its original meaning as ratified or enacted.

The Liberal Capitalist Party holds that our Federal government is based on a regime of enumerated powers and is thus limited, with all powers not enumerated reserved to the States or to the people as per the Tenth Amendment.

We further hold that the rights of the people are NOT enumerated, and thus NOT limited by the Constitution, as per the Ninth Amendment.

The Liberal Capitalist party believes that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to bear arms. We find no reason to believe that when the Founders used the phrase “the right of the people” in the Second Amendment that they had a different meaning in mind than they did when they used the same phrase in the First and Fourth Amendments, and where the understanding of the original meaning of the phrase is commonly accepted.

We further hold that Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate ACTUAL commercial activity between States, and that it does NOT give Congress the power to regulate any or every intrastate activity that could possibly be construed to affect interstate commerce in a derivative manner.

Furthermore, the Liberal Capitalist Party believes that the due process and equal protection of the laws afforded every American by the Fourteenth Amendment are utterly consistent with the whole of the Constitution and must be upheld without exception as they are a guarantee of individual rights. The time has come for Congress and the courts to finally enforce the Fourteenth Amendment in good faith according to its original meaning.

And Finally, the Liberal Capitalist Party recognizes Article V of the Constitution as setting forth the sole means of constitutional amendment, and thus we hold all other means of altering the provisions of the Constitution beyond their original meaning as illegitimate and dangerous. We contend before all interest groups that seek to use the court system or improper legislation to undermine provisions of the Constitution with which they disagree that they are attacking the whole of the Constitution, indeed, subverting it, and in doing so they provide legal precedent others may use to further subvert it in the future, including perhaps provisions with which they do agree, and thus endanger the republic and the rights of the people for which this government was constituted to protect.


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