"Obedience is not Patriotism.
Patriotism is Love of your Country, not of your Government."
Patriotism is Love of your Country, not of your Government."
Dedicated to Promote, Protect and Defend our Conservative
Values & Principles
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 to determine what is right and wrong, while values provide the general guidelines for our conduct within those rules. Principles are meant to represent our highest ideals and should be based on fundamental truths, they should mostly be unchanging.
As Republicans, we should apply our principles to our methods, decentralizing our infrastructure and investing in real, long-term grassroots strength.
Our Shared Fundamental Principles:
These are just some of the unchanging principles of conservatism.
We must convince more and more people that our ideas work better and can assure a more free and prosperous future for all Americans. If we don’t do that, and more Americans succumb to the false promises of the statists, we soon won’t recognize America.
If ever there was a time we needed to be clear about our principles, it is now.
- Our God given natural rights collectively constitute the moral ability and sovereign authority of every human being to make personal choices...free from government interference or government permission.
- The government is instituted to protect the rights bestowed on individuals under natural law. It exists to preserve life, liberty and property — a mission that includes not only protecting the sanctity of life but defending freedom of speech, religion, the press and assembly, and the right of individuals to be treated equally and justly under the law, and to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
- The federal government’s powers should be limited to only those named in the U.S. Constitution and exercised solely to protect the rights of its citizens
- Government functions best when it is closest and most accountable to the people and where power is shared between the federal government and the states.
- Individuals and families make the best decisions for themselves and their children about health, education, jobs and welfare.
- America’s economy and the prosperity of individual citizens are best served by a system built on free enterprise, economic freedom, private property rights and the rule of law. This system is best sustained by policies that promote general economic freedom and eliminate governmental preferences for special interests, including free trade, deregulation, and opposing government interventions in the economy that distort free markets and impair innovation.
- Tax policies should raise the minimum revenue necessary to fund only constitutionally appropriate functions of government.
- Regulations should be limited to those that produce a net benefit to the American people as a whole, weighing both financial and liberty costs.
- Judges should interpret and apply our laws and the Constitution based on their original meaning, not upon judges’ own personal and political predispositions.
- America must be a welcoming nation — one that promotes patriotic assimilation and is governed by laws that are fair, humane and enforced to protect its citizens.
- America is strongest when our policies protect our national interests, preserve our alliances of free peoples, vigorously counter threats to our security and interests, and advance prosperity through economic freedom at home and abroad.
These are just some of the unchanging principles of conservatism.
We must convince more and more people that our ideas work better and can assure a more free and prosperous future for all Americans. If we don’t do that, and more Americans succumb to the false promises of the statists, we soon won’t recognize America.
If ever there was a time we needed to be clear about our principles, it is now.
