18 BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR AMERICA
Amended August 2025
The Constitution was created because the British and their King wanted to rule over us and tax us without representation. We the people do not accept taxation without representation. America does not have Kings.
The government today and probably throughout history, due to human failings, has been, is, and always will be about "power", but very seldom about "principle". However, if we choose to avoid principle, we do so at our own peril. Many governments have fallen for far less. This great land of ours could easily share the same fate unless we return to these principles, for which millions of brave men and women have sacrificed their lives, their limbs, and their minds to defend.
1. The rights of the "individual" are paramount and unalterable. THERE ARE NO KINGS. All constitutional rights to the individual should be jealously guarded, protected, and defended by all branches of government, including the judicial branch. This applies to all Constitutional Amendments. Constitutional Law and not the legal philosophy of "Positivism" should guide judicial decisions at all levels.
2. The environment deserves protection.
3. American with disabilities, our veterans and elderly deserve to be supported Our monetary compassion should only be extended to those who truly cannot take care of themselves.
4. No group, business, agriculture or otherwise should be subsidized by the government treasury.
5. The government, before anything else, must protect and defend the people from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The military should never be used against the American people as a measure to take our freedoms away.
6. Our government must begin a distinct policy of energy independence by whatever scientific and current technology means available including solar, wind and new technologies
7. Vaccines are proven to be safe and effective deterrents to diseases and save lives. All health technologies must go through a vigorous pier reviewed science based evaluation before they are dispensed to the public.
8. All new and old laws will require a "sunset" provision with a full congressional review and public input before continuation after "sunset".
9. A significant portion of government time should be expended towards cleaning up old arcane laws. Conflicting laws should be deleted or codified to remove the conflicts.
10. No treaty or international agreement with other nations will be signed or ratified by any branch of government that conflicts with the U. S. Constitution. Any current treaties or agreements that do conflict with the Constitution should be immediately repealed or re-drafted to remove the conflict.
11. TERM LIMITS No public official shall be allowed to remain in one political office for more than two terms forever. Entrenchment is an enemy of a good and just government, where remaining in office becomes a greater priority than service to the country.
12. Tariffs are a tax on the American people. Tariffs must be congressionally approved.
13. Criminals who perpetrate violent crimes against children, women, or the disabled for the 2nd offense, including murder, rape, sex crimes, or kidnapping, should be incarcerated for life.
14. Taxation should be fair and equitable across the board. The tax code should be drastically simplified. The billionaire class does not deserve rights that the rest of the people cannot get. One person. One Vote
15. No individual or business should be able to donate more than $500 annually to a political campaign, political action committee or any other person who is running for political office. Politicians should be for the people and by the people not for the wealthy and by the wealthy.
16. No funding or aid would be provided to any foreign country that does not change to a democratic form of government and will not allow us to audit where the funds are going. America must be allowed to distribute the funds or aid in every case.
17. The entire Veterans Administration office should be overhauled, and new policies put in place with the funds to match. These new policies would create an absolute priority for treating our veterans and their families with respect, honor, dignity, and the admiration that they deserve. These people gave their lives, minds, and limbs in the service of our country, defending our cherished freedoms. The current VA programs are an egregious affront to these individuals and an abysmal travesty.
18. Restrict, by legislation, the access of narrow-focus lobby groups in Washington DC and State legislatures,.. We should be a government of the "people", not special interest groups.
The foregoing principles parallel the rights enumerated in the U. S. Constitution that have been perverted over the last 70 to 100 years by those that seek power rather than be guided by principle. We must return to these principles or find our constitution and its safeguards and protections unraveling more and more with each passing law that violates these principles.
Governments only get powerful because we let them. Political parties get powerful because we let them. Large corporations and legal or illegal organizations get powerful because we let them. Environmental groups get powerful because we let them. The larger these entities become, the more they will try to increase their power. But WE, THE PEOPLE, in the form of individuals and families, have the ultimate power if we will only exercise that power and if we act as one in defense of our unalienable rights as granted to us by our founders and the Constitution and further by living up to our civic duties, obligations, and individual responsibilities. But if we are divided, if we fight amongst ourselves, if we allow ourselves to be corrupted by the lies of the media, and if we ignore these time-tested constitutional principles, we are rendered impotent and the "powerful" will fill the gap, as they already have, because we let them.