“That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”– Abraham Lincoln

We, the members of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, joined in congress this Ninth Day of August, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Seven, humbly thank Almighty God for the freedoms and liberties we so abundantly enjoy as Americans. We believe that God is the source of eternal truth and law as revealed in Holy Scripture. We pledge our allegiance to uphold the precious Constitution as originally intended by our country’s Founding Fathers. We hold to principles over politics.

We have joined ourselves together within the Republican Party to achieve our common goals – to give definition and strength to the Conservative movement within these United States. In these, we proudly affirm our belief in the following principles:

This nation was established by men humbly seeking the guidance of Almighty God. Our hope for God to bless our country exists only if we again seek his Divine guidance.

We support the United States Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers as the Supreme law of the land.

The power of the Federal Government must be strongly bound by the chains of the Constitution to allow maximum individual achievement through freedom.

Our country is a sovereign nation. We must never compromise our national sovereignty to other nations, the United Nations, or any other world organization. Our Foreign Policy must always reflect our national self-interest.

Our Founding Fathers firmly held to the conviction that religious freedom was fundamental to a free society. We also express the conviction that we are a God-fearing people, according one another the equal right of religious freedom and acknowledging with reverence the duty of obedience to the will of God.

Our individual states have sovereign authority to govern the lands and peoples with their borders. We will not abide usurpation of state sovereignty by Federal mandate or economic extortion.

The sanctity of human life is paramount in any free society. The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. This sacred right extends to all persons regardless of age or infirmity and also would not allow for euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning or public funding for any of these practices.

We believe that each of us should be free to achieve or fail according to our individual abilities, without the need for governmental assistance or quotas.

Taxes should serve only to pay for the enumerated Constitutional duties of government. It is not the role of our government to penalize financial success, nor protect from financial failure. Each citizen should share equitably in financing the freedoms we enjoy.

Families have been the foundation of our national strength. If we are to endure as a free nation, the traditional family unit must be preserved and encouraged to thrive.

Parents bear the final responsibility before God in the rearing of their children. Parents have been commanded by God to love their children and lead them in the paths of truth. Parents must be free to discipline their children in love and direct their education without government intrusion.

When truth was taught in schools, our nation prospered. As we have abandoned the teaching of absolutes to relativism, our children have lost the potential to achieve greatness. Our system of education must demand excellence rather than accommodate mediocrity.

Private property rights are fundamental to our liberty.

The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to deterring government tyranny and must be preserved without governmental interference.

Free enterprise competition has been the engine of our national success. Free market capitalism has its only limitation in the human imagination. Governmental regulation of the economy must conform to Constitutional limits.

The first obligation of federal government is to defend its people against enemies. To protect our citizenry in an stable world, the United States must retain the strongest defense system in the world with their singular objective of victory in every conflict and a complete authentic accounting or return of every person in our armed forces captured or missing in action.

We affirm the Constitutional prerogative of Congress alone to declare war. The United States military should only be used to protect the national security of the United States; executive orders or other international bodies not excepted.

Only men, not women, will serve in combat. Women shall not be drafted into the armed forces.

We condemn “man’s inhumanity to man” by exploitation of slave labor in our county or elsewhere.