Principles
The Jeffersonian Party seeks federal, constitutional, American government, and is built on a foundation of seven principles. Within the bounds of these principles, many kinds of perspectives are welcome within the Party.
Principle #1:
A return of the federal government to a federal nature rather than a supreme one
"We the Delegates of the People of Virginia [...] Do in the name and in behalf of the People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will: that therefore no right of any denomination can be cancelled abridged restrained or modified by the Congress by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any Capacity by the President or any Department or Officer of the United States except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes[.]" - Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia; June 26, 1788
Principle #2:
A return of the federal government to constitutional bounds
"The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes have been devoted to [the] attainment [of the general principles of the US government]:—they should be the creed of our political faith; the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801
Principle #3:
A new constitution to facilitate the return of the federal government to its constitutional bounds
"[A] Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it." - John Adams; July 7th, 1775
Principle #4:
A rejection of the modern concept of law and return to traditional American jurisprudence, namely: law being formed on and subsidiary to the unalterable foundation of Natural Law
"Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his creator, for he is entirely a dependent being. A being, independent of any other, has no rule to pursue, but such as he prescribes to himself; but a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct: not indeed in every particular, but in all those points wherein his dependence consists. This principle therefore has more or less extent and effect, in proportion as the superiority of the one and the dependence of the other is greater or less, absolute or limited. And consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his maker for every thing, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his maker’s will.
This will of his maker is called the law of nature. [...]
This law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other- It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." - Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, from section titled Of The Nature Of Laws In General; 1765-1769
Principle #5:
A rejection of the idols of Liberty and Equality, and the demolition of those unconstitutional idols in the forms of the Statue of Libertas and the Lincoln Temple; the return to the traditional understanding of equality mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as a rejection of the hereditary distinctions that were present in British society without any regard to a destruction of the distinctions of nations and races, and to the traditional understanding of liberty as being built on a foundation of responsibility and discipline
"[T]o compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical[.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion[.]" Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, 1786
Principle #6:
An end to entangling alliances, including with:
1. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
2. The modern State of Israel
"[P]eace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none[.]" - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1801
Principle #7:
Truly well regulated militias that operate independently of the federal government at the State level, publicly and/or privately
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. [Emphasis added]" - 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution, 1789
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