What is a real republican? [Back to basics]

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 "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..."  -- Article IV, Section 4, the United States Constitution

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What is a REAL REPUBLICAN?

A REAL REPUBLICAN is an American who adheres politically, in word and deed, to the original natural law moral principles of our republic, to the sworn duty to support the stated purposes and explicit provisions of the U.S. Constitution, and is firmly committed to the preservation of representative self-government.

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What are the original principles of our republic?

Those principles are summed up best in our nation's charter, the 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..."

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What are the stated purposes of the U.S. Constitution?

Those purposes are presented succinctly in the document's opening Statement of Purpose, in six important clauses:

"We the People of the United States, in Order TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION, ESTABLISH JUSTICE, INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

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Again, what is a REAL REPUBLICAN?

1. A REAL REPUBLICAN is a person who holds to the self-evident truth that our rights, including our rights to life, liberty, and property, come from God, not from any man, and that those intrinsic rights are therefore UNALIENABLE.

2. A REAL REPUBLICAN understands that we are all EQUAL BEFORE GOD, and that all persons must therefore be considered EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW.

3. A REAL REPUBLICAN understands that the primary purpose for the existence of all human government is TO DEFEND THE GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.

4. A REAL REPUBLICAN seeks to preserve and perfect our national UNION.

5. A REAL REPUBLICAN seeks to establish JUSTICE for every individual person, in the protection of their God-given rights.

6. A REAL REPUBLICAN seeks the TRANQUILITY of our nation, and seeks to defend all innocent persons, from their creation until their natural death, from any and all violence that might be committed against them.

7. A REAL REPUBLICAN supports the common DEFENSE of our entire nation, its territory, its sovereignty, and of every individual innocent person in it.

8. A REAL REPUBLICAN supports policies that are intended to serve the general WELFARE or WELL-BEING of the entire country, not line the pockets of favored individuals, groups, or factions.

9. The ultimate purpose of the REAL REPUBLICAN is TO SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.

 

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If you're a REAL REPUBLICAN you should have no problem at all signing our Leadership Pledge and KEEPING IT.

 

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[EternalVigilance]

"These communities [the Fathers of the Republic], by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'

"This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to his creatures.

"Yes, gentlemen, to all his creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children, and their children's children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages.

"Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.

"Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution. Think nothing of me — take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever — but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy that immortal emblem of Humanity — the Declaration of American Independence."

-- Abraham Lincoln, speech in Lewiston, Illinois, August 17, 1858, four days before his first historic debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Printed in the Chicago Press and Tribune.

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Forgot the link. Sorry about that.

http://www.realrepublicans.net/what-is-a-real-republican.html

[onedoug]

I’m not a Republican. I’m a conservative.

[EternalVigilance]

I’m a conservative, and a republican, small “r.” In other words, I stand for the principles of our republic.

[cripplecreek]

What we face from the GOPe.

THE ESTABLISHMENT STRIKES BACK: MICHIGAN “RINO’S” MANEUVERING TO REGAIN CONTROL OF STATE PARTY

Demands for the resignation of Michigan’s Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema may be far less spontaneous than initially portrayed. Last week, Agema waded into the gay marriage debate with a controversial Facebook post opposing legalization. Almost immediately thereafter, aspiring political consultant Dennis Lennox has been loudly leading the assault on Dave Agema. In repeated written outbursts, Lennox proclaimed there is “no room for Agema in the GOP”, accused Agema of being a “neo-Know Nothing adherent”, and called Agema an “ignorant bigot.”

Oddly enough, in his role as “columnist” Lennox failed to mention an important personal vested interest in his demands for an Agema resignation. Lennox failed to mention in his boisterous article that he served as one of Saul Anuzis’ most vocal supporters in Anuzis’ campaign for reelection as Republican National Committeeman. In the end, Dave Agema trounced Anuzis 69% to 31%, as many grassroots conservatives opposed Anuzis as insufficiently conservative.

Calling Anuzis or Lennox "insufficiently conservative" is like calling Obama somewhat left leaning.

[EternalVigilance]

Don’t give ‘em anywhere to hide.

[cripplecreek]

The GOPe just cannot accept a conservative sitting in a national committee chair. If Dave Agema is allowed to stay, others may follow.