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 Revolutionary platform Stephanie's all-encompassing platform is hugely simple. Drumroll, please: As congresswoman, Stephanie Sailor will agree to uphold her oath to the US Constitution. The end. That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less. Stephanie's platform might appear to be too simple. But less is more. That applies to the Constitution, which was designed by the Founding Fathers to give less power to elected officials and thus more freedom to the people. It was written not simply to empower the federal government, but to limit government as well. We've come a long way since the Constitution was ratified in 1788. What was once cherished is now ignored. Today, nearly every congressman/woman/king/queen in power has failed to uphold his/her oath to the US Constitution. This includes Stephanie Kennedy Sailor's opponent, Jesse Jackson, Jr., who has repeatedly violated government powers authorized by the Constitution. But it's not exclusively Democrats who disregard the Constitution and support the growth of the nanny-state. Republicans are just as bad. Beyond being unconstitutional, government-run programs are notoriously inefficient and almost always fail. Rarely, if ever, is anyone in government held accountable for mishaps. The same cannot be said for private enterprise. When someone in the private sector fails, it's likely they'll be fired, penalized, or held legally liable for their misdeeds. Jesse Jackson, Jr. and other politicians have pushed for government-sponsored programs, federal subsidies, female entitlements, race entitlements, regulation, economic controls on businesses and people, the disarming of citizens, taxation, housing entitlements, corporate welfare, citizen welfare, government-run healthcare, intervention and foreign meddling, police state controls, privacy invasions, and the list goes on and on. All of these efforts are good intentions. All of these efforts have been done in the name of "helping citizens" or "solving people's problems." All of these efforts may seem really great on the surface, but there's one tremendously huge problem: nowhere in the Constitution are such powers authorized. Nowhere. Now is a good time for a quick refresher on the Constitution, a precious document created by the The US Constitution: --might be old, but it's not uncool. Nor is it disposable. The Constitution is one of the most important documents in the world, designed to ensure freedom for the people. --establishes a government of delegated, enumerated, and thus limited powers. --is the law of the land. Nothing should be enacted by the House or Senate without first consulting the Constitution for proper authority. --was written by people who had endured tyranny, heavy taxation, and government corruption. --was created to prevent future government abuses. --is not meant to be taken lightly, disregarded, or violated as most all politicians do. Roger Pilon of the CATO Institute puts it rather well: Every day Congress is besieged by requests to enact countless measures to solve endless problems. Indeed, listening to much of the recent campaign debate, one might conclude that no problem is too personal or too trivial to warrant the attention of the federal government. Yet most of the "problems'' Congress spends most of its time addressing -- from health care to day care to retirement security to economic competition -- are simply the personal and economic problems of life that individuals, families, and firms, not governments, should be addressing. What is more, as a basic point of constitutional doctrine, under a constitution like ours, interpreted as ours was meant to be interpreted, there is little authority for government at any level to address such problems. In summary, before enacting any bill, congresspeople should be asking themselves, "Does the government have the authority, the constitutional authority, to do what we are doing?" If the answer is no, then they are violating their congressional oath to uphold the US Constitution. Stephanie is here to put an end to such government corruption, abuse, and tyranny. That's why, if elected to Congress, she'll absolutely 100% uphold her oath to the US Constitution. --back to top-- |
