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 The Utah Republican Party Platform is a statement of our principles and values. What does that mean and why is it important? “Principles are the internal rules we live by while values provide the general guidelines for our conduct within those rules.” So, a principle is a moral rule or belief that helps us know what is right and wrong, and a value describes the personal qualities we choose to guide our actions.
What happens when personal and political interests get in the way of our stated values and principles? You get the modern-day Utah Republican Party. When we as a party focus solely on electing Republicans, we are pursuing our political interest to control congress and the legislature. However, if we are unwilling to strongly voice foundational principles and values that underlie these political interests, we become a joke. Just look at the dumpster fire electing Mitt Romney has created...
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 REAFFIRMATION OF STATES' RIGHTS (Republican Party Platform)
We oppose congressional, judicial, and executive abrogation of the principle that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. We oppose unreasonable and intrusive federal mandates. Are Mandatory Vaccines Constitutional? The politicization by the left of the Coronavirus is seriously encumbering our inalienable rights protected by the Constitution. As ratified, our Constitution does not permit the government to infringe upon these inalienable rights, no matter the emergency or pandemic. These rights are granted by God, not by government so they cannot be infringed. State or Local law enforcement are not the personal militias of the Governor or any other elected official. Many police and law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others acting as public officials have over-stepped these constitutional boundaries to combat the Coronavirus. It must stop. The electorate must be reminded that the rule of law stands, and no one is above the law...  THE PROPER ROLE OF GOVERNMENT (Republican Party Platform) “We believe government properly exists by the consent of the governed and must be restrained from intruding into the freedoms of its citizens. The function of government is not to grant rights, but to protect the unalienable, God-given rights of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.” What are the origins of our freedoms we have come to know as human rights? Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. Reason, necessity, tradition, and religious convictions all lead me to accept the divine origin of these rights. Because, if we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government...  The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the UTGOP 2-1
Under our Constitutional Republic, the people of Utah elect representatives to govern their affairs. In order for the people to decide who governs their affairs, elections must be held. The Constitution grants states the right to prescribe the “times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives” …and the Supreme Court has held that states enjoy similar authority to regulate their own elections. It is not uncommon for regulations enacted to run elections to impose some burden upon individual voters and/or political parties. When they do, and the burden of these regulations infringe on the constitutional rights of the individual or the party, the interests of the state with respect to any election regulations must be balanced against an individual and/or institution’s constitutional rights... |
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