Core Proservative® Principles
A Proservative® has taken an oath to be legally bound by these 13 Principles in word and action:
- Believe human life begins at conception, and as such, unborn life should be fully protected under the U.S. Constitution
- Oppose government funds expended on programs and/or services that involve abortions or use of embryonic cells
- Believe the family to be the core, essential unit of American society
- Protect and secure parental rights from an increasingly intrusive and overbearing government
- Support marriage privatization, believing marriage/matrimony to be a religious function, and not a state function
- Believe parents, not government, know what is best for their children
- Solemnly swear, or affirm, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, bearing true faith and allegiance to the same
- Believe the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees United States citizens, "We the People", the right to keep and bear arms, for self-defense and to secure a free State
- Oppose gun control laws, knowing they do not prevent law-breaking criminals from obtaining guns
- Believe more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens mean less crime
- Cut and/or eliminate taxes wherever possible, putting money back into the pockets of hard-working Americans
- Support the elimination of the income tax and the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which, when ratified in 1913, allowed the previously illegal and unconstitutional income tax to become legal
- Reduce and/or eliminate the property tax
- Believe that the people know better how to spend their hard-earned income than the government does
- Believe as is written in the United States Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
- Committed to shrinking the size, scope, and power of government
- Support term limits for elected officials
- Secure and protect our nation's borders from those who would practice unlawful trade and travel, attempt to enter our country illegally, or seek to harm our United States and its people
- Wage wars only when they have been declared by Congress and have clear objectives
- Avoid long and expensive land wars and nation building
- Stop transferring wealth from Americans to rich dictators and the military-industrial complex through foreign aid
- Believe the individual states should retain authority over all matters not expressly delegated to the federal government in Article I of the U.S. Constitution
- Committed to cutting the federal budget, paying off our national debt, and requiring all federal, state, and local governments to maintain a balanced budget with no deficit spending
- Support a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require the federal government to not spend more than its income
- End government sponsored, taxpayer funded corporate welfare, bailouts, and subsidies
- Support free markets unhindered by external regulation or control by government or monopolies
- Eliminate burdensome government regulations, particularly on small business
- End government sponsored, taxpayer funded corporate welfare, bailouts, and subsidies
- Support free trade with all countries, rejecting protectionism
- Discourage restrictive trade quotas and protectionist tariffs
- Embrace Capitalism as the best method of elevating people out of poverty
- Reduce the reach of centralized government in the schools and return control over school curricula, funding, and administration back to parents and local communities
- Support the right of state and local school districts, under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to implement education voucher plans
- Reject federal government-controlled school voucher plans, preferring federal education tax credits instead
- Reduce and/or eliminate the property tax
- Oppose eminent domain abuses, only allowing property to be seized for clearly defined public use reasons and not for private gain, benefit, private employment, increasing tax revenue, or "economic development", with just compensation made to the property owner in money to fully cover what he or she has lost in property
- Stand against unreasonable searches and seizure of personal property, strictly adhering to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protecting every citizen's right to be free from unreasonable government intrusion into his or her body, house and property - whether in public, or at home, work or school
- Protect intellectual property by providing inventors, innovators, artists and others the limited but exclusive right to their discoveries, patents, copyrights, and trademarks, in order to "Promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"
- Allow open competition of currencies, including electronic/digital forms of currency
- Allow gold and silver as legal tender, able to be sold without being levied sales tax
- Oppose use, creation of money that derives its value from government regulation or law, known as fiat currency
- Eliminate the ability of the Federal Reserve to "tax" Americans through monetary inflation, which reduces the purchasing power of the currency Americans are holding