| History of the Constitution Party: Constitution Party Mission Statement The mission of the Constitution Party is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity through the election, at all levels of government, of Constitution Party candidates who will uphold the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. It is our goal to limit the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions and to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations. History In 1992 a coalition of independent state parties united to form the U.S. Taxpayers Party with the common goal of limiting the Federal Government to its constitutional boundaries and restoring civil government to the principles our country was founded upon. Some of the state affiliate parties have adopted the national party name while others have adopted or retained a different name. In 1992, the party’s presidential candidate, Howard Phillips was on the ballot in 21 states with Albion Knight Jr. as Phillips’ running mate. In 1995, the party became the fifth political party to be formally recognized by the Federal Election Commission as a national political party. In 1996 the party achieved ballot access in 39 states, with Howard Phillips as its presidential nominee and Constitutional scholar Herb Titus as its vice-presidential nominee. In the 2000 elections, the Constitution Party achieved presidential ballot access in 41 states and qualified write-in candidate status in 7 others. This made for a total of 48 states where people were able to cast their votes for Constitution Party candidates. In addition, the party fielded over 100 candidates nationwide for offices ranging from the federal to the local levels of government. The Constitution Party is the only party which is completely pro-life, anti-homosexual rights, pro-American sovereignty, anti-globalist, anti-free trade, anti-deindustrialization, anti-unchecked immigration, pro-second amendment, and against the constantly increasing expansion of unlawful police laws, in favor of a strong national defense and opposed to unconstitutional interventionism.
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