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At the origin of America, our Founding Fathers built this country on 28 powerful principles. These principles were culled from all over the world and from centuries of great thinkers. The original 28 principles are in print in The Five Thousand Year Leap. These principles have been distilled down to the 9 basic principles.
The formation of Constitutional TEA Party is based on these principles. The TEA parties held from coast-to-coast are based on these principles of our Founding Fathers.
So, how do we show America what’s really behind the curtain? Read The 9 Principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. Join with us at Constitutional TEA Party to spread these principles, one person at a time.
1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”
from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
Honesty“I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
George Washington
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.”
Thomas Jefferson
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.”
Thomas Jefferson
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.”
Thomas Jefferson
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.”
George Washington
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.”
George Washington
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.”
Thomas Jefferson
* Reverence
* Hope
* Thrift
* Humility
* Charity
* Sincerity
* Moderation
* Hard Work
* Courage
* Personal Responsibility
* Gratitude
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 5, 2009
Contact: Phil Kerpen or James Valvo (703) 224-3200
Americans for Prosperity Blasts Senator Boxer for Slamming Cap-and-Trade through Senate Committee Today
- Free market group says health care used as cover for energy tax -
WASHINGTON – The free market grassroots organization Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today chastised California Democratic Senator and chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee Barbara Boxer for pulling a fast one on the American people. The timing of the markup was an outrage considering the massive government takeover of health care that is in full swing in both chambers. Boxer passed the bill out of committee over the opposition and boycott of all seven of the committee’s Republicans.
“The country deserves better than Senator Boxer using a Democrats-only committee hearing to move cap-and-trade,” said Americans for Prosperity Policy Director Phil Kerpen. “The Republicans were very responsibly asking that the EPA conduct an analysis of the Kerry-Boxer bill before the markup began. That’s not too much to ask.”
The Kerry-Boxer bill is the Senate companion legislation to the House-passed Waxman-Markey energy tax bill. Both bills seek to restrict greenhouse gas emissions with a government-imposed cap and a Wall Street-run derivatives market to swap emission allowances. This week’s markup was the first step in the Senate for the scheme.
“Just like Waxman-Markey, this bill will cripple our fledgling economic recovery, drive up energy prices and cost the country even more jobs,” Kerpen concluded. “It seems that tax-and-spend big government advocates know no bounds to their hunger for power.”