Issues

PeachTea Party is a coalition of noted conservatives whose aim is to promote traditional values in government. We want to ensure that the proper emphasis is given to the important issues of our day. It is a political fact that “all politics is local”. It is a political reality that politicians never do “what you EXpect, they only do what you INspect.” Therefore, we have established a simple hierarchy of issues that protect our constitutional freedoms and establishes transparency to the political and legislative process. It is imperative that “WE the People” are informed as to where a legislator or candidate stands in relationship to FIVE important issues of our day:

• Sanctity of Life—the right to life is inalienable. Without the paramount right of Personhood . . . all other rights are moot. PeachTea Party is Prolife.

• Family and Marriage—the health of the family is the bedrock of any civilization. Marriage is the most basic governmental jurisdiction. Candidates which have succeeded in governing their families qualify for higher office. PeachTea Party is Profamily.

• Fiscal Responsibility—a family doesn’t have the right to print money anytime it chooses . . . neither should the government. Where a candidate stands in relation to conservative fiscal restraints means that government will consume less of our GDP. If each elected official was rendered ineligible for re-election every time our government spending exceeded 3% of our GDP, then deficit spending would be curbed overnight. PeachTea Party stands for less taxes.

• Constitutional Governance—is the extent, limit and nature of government as defined by a set of rules and principles embodied in our Constitution. “Thomas Jefferson believed in a “strict construction” of the Constitution . . . anything not given to the federal government in the Constitution would be given to the states and the people.”1 PeachTea Party supports the appointment of Judges who hold to a Strict Constructionist doctrine.

• Personal and Economic Liberty—the first ten amendments to our Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights. Freedom to worship as we please, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and states rights are a sample of the rights guaranteed to “we the people”. Any erosion of these rights opens the way to oppressive government.PeachTea Party is Pro-State’s Rights.