By unanimous vote of its Executive Committee, the Constitution Party of West Virginia has approved and adopted the Preamble, Core Beliefs, and National Platform positions to its specific state platform. Additionally, original drafts of the Community Decency, Illegal Immigration, Sanctity of Life and Second Amendment positions were also adopted at this meeting which was duly assembled at Alpine Lake, Terra Alta, Preston County on September 23, 2006.
Preamble
Conscious of Providence and solicitous of the blessings of Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ, the Constitution Party of West Virginia embraces and advances the following statement of positions to restore and protect Constitutional government, preserve the continuity of our civilization, and defend the sovereignty of our State thus guarding liberty under law for ourselves and our posterity.
Core Beliefs
We affirm the Christian character and heritage(1) of our State, and the Bible as the basis of morality on which the legitimacy of our laws rest.
We affirm the fundamental principles of American republicanism as originally set forth in the draft version of the Virginia Declaration of Rights(2) and reiterated in the Declaration of Independence, constituting the basis and foundation of government.
We believe in the sovereignty, freedom and independence of the several States and affirm the principles asserted in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798/1799.(3)
The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the land;(4) its provisions, along with those of this State, are operative alike in a period of war as in time of peace, and any departure therefrom, or violation thereof, under the plea of necessity, or any other plea, is subversive to good government and tends to anarchy and despotism.(5)
The government of the United States is a government of enumerated powers, and all powers not delegated to it, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people thereof. Among the powers so reserved to the States is the exclusive regulation of their own internal government and police; and it is the high and solemn duty of constitutional government to guard and protect the people of the several States from all encroachments upon the rights so reserved.(6)
National Platform
The Constitution Party of West Virginia recognizes the platform of the national Constitution Party(7) as the statement of principles and positions for our candidates for federal office and for areas where a state position has not yet been developed. Where the state and national party platforms differ, the following West Virginia state platform shall take precedence:
FOOTNOTES:
1) America’s Christian Heritage Week – www.achw.org
2) Virginia Declaration of Rights, draft version – http://www.lva.virginia.gov/lib-edu/education/bor/draftvdr.htm
3) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798/1799 – http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/virres.asp
4) U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Section 2 – http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A6.html
5) West Virginia Constitution, Article I, Section 3 – http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/WV_CON.cfm#articleI
6) U.S. Constitution, Amendment X – http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am10.html
7) Platform of the National Constitution Party – http://constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php
Religious groups join fight against national IDs
Critics of federal legislation to establish nationwide identification standards are tapping into religious groups to galvanize resistance to the statute.
The authors of a New Hampshire bill to make the Granite State the first to reject the so-called REAL ID Act have cited financial and constitutional concerns about its implementation. But several conservative Christian groups that have endorsed the New Hampshire proposal are largely motivated by their belief that the law is a sign of the apocalypse.
According to leaders of the movement against the statute, the cause has benefited immensely from the active participation of groups that view the law as the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy. Such groups refer to scripture that predicts that humans will be numbered by marks on their foreheads and hands before the arrival of the antichrist.
Katherine Albrecht, the founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, has lobbied extensively on behalf of the New Hampshire bill. She said religious groups have been valuable because they are highly mobile and well-organized.
Ervin (Butch) Paugh, a preacher and radio host in West Virginia who is running for governor on the Constitutionalist Party ticket, has been urging lawmakers in his state to follow New Hampshire’s lead. Joe Cicchirillo, a commissioner at West Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles, said he was impressed by Paugh’s knowledge of the issue when he met with him this month.
Read full article by Michael Martinez here.