Where We Stand :
Constitution Party of Vermont Platform
The Constitution Party of Vermont stands for:
- Fidelity to the United States and Vermont Constitutions as our basic charters of government
- Individual liberty and protection of the enumerated rights guaranteed by our constitutions
- A republican form of government
- The human right of private property ownership
- The right to keep and bear arms for self-defense and the defense of society
- Limited government, and restraint in taxing, spending, and regulating
- Judicial restraint, and strict construction of the constitution and laws
- Strong self-governing local communities as a forum for civic life and a counterweight to centralized governmental power
- Economic growth and opportunity for all in a competitive free enterprise system
- Equal protection of the laws, without special preferences for favored classes
- Mutual aid and voluntary service to the community
- Public support for those unable to live in dignity on their own
- Traditional marriage between one man and one woman
- Protection of innocent human life
- Reverence toward our Creator in all things and the driving principle that all sound governance presumes a God given moral foundation
The Constitution Party endorses candidates who if elected will support the following actions:
- Repeal the 2000 civil union act.
- Adopt (at the first opportunity) a constitutional amendment overturning the Vermont Supreme Court’s decision in the gay marriage case, and establishing that marriage is the legal union of one man and one woman.
- Repeal Act 60, including both its centralization of educational control in the State and its financing system.
- Repeal taxpayer financing of political campaigns and increase the contribution limit to $5,000 per individual.
- Repeal Act 15 (the heavy cutting law of 1997) and adopt an inverse condemnation law, where a landowner can force the government to take his land and pay just compensation whenever regulations destroy more than half of its value.
- Oppose every effort to expand state or local control over firearms possession and carry by law-abiding citizens,
- Reverse government intrusion into health care financing and control, and pay medical providers the full costs incurred by Medicaid patients.
- Expand parental choice in education to include grades K-12 at public schools and both secular and faith-based independent schools, and adopt a strong charter school act.
- Provide a religious exemption for faith based home school families who wish “zero” state intrusion.
- Oppose any increase in the state property tax rate, the income tax rate, or the sales tax rate without approval of the people in a referendum vote.
- Sharply restrict third trimester abortions, and cease taxpayer funding of Medicaid abortions and constitutionally acknowledge the personhood of the unborn child.
- Abolish the Human Rights Commission and the Governors Commission on the Status of Women, and repeal the hate crimes act.
- Reform Act 250 and other regulatory statutes to make land use regulation fair, swift, and certain.
- Roll back costly government mandates on business.
- Protect town and city governments against unfunded state mandates.
- End taxpayer financing of pro-homosexual programs in public schools.
- Adopt the Citizens Initiative, to allow voters to require a legislative vote on questions favored by the people in a referendum.
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