FREE THIRD PARTY TEA PARTY ALTERNATIVE ISSUES ALL MATTER AS A WHOLE BUT ALL THAT ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN WILL COME TOGETHER TO CHANGE THE 21st CENTURY OUTCOME AS A GOAL! WE NEED TO ALL VOTE THIRD PARTY AND NOT FOR DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.
* FEEL FREE TO PRINT ANY OR ALL FOR YOUR MEETING HANDOUTS*
THAT WILL MAKE A CHANGE RIGHT THERE!
VOTERS NEED A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE
TIME FOR A REAL 21st CENTURY CHANGE!
THIRD PARTY BALLOT ACCESS FOR PRESIDENT
And in for Independents Running for Elections in USA
Ballot access in the United States of America
( FREE FOR MEDIA ONLINE PRESS FROM WIKIPEDIA)
Overview of ballot access in the U.S.
Each state has its own ballot access laws to determine who may appear on ballots and who may not. According to Article I, Section 4, of the United States Constitution, the authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections is up to each State, unless Congress legislates otherwise.
The primary argument put forward by States for restricting ballot access has been the rational conclusion that setting ballot access criteria too low would result in numerous candidates on the ballot, splitting the votes of similar minded voters.
Example: With Plurality voting, an old but common way to pick the winner, the candidate with the most votes wins, even if it is not a majority. Suppose a district is 55% Democrat and 45% Republican, or vise versa. If there are two candidates which appeal to democrats, and one who appeals to republicans, the vote of the democrats will likely be split between the first two candidates, and the republican will win even though 55% strongly prefer someone else. Plurality races, also known as First past the post, tend to cause consolidation among political parties for this reason. Also, it would be expensive to print 100+ names on a ballot. However, proponents of ballot access reform say that reasonably easy access to the ballot does not lead to a glut of candidates, even where many candidates do appear on the ballot, as was the case in the crowded 2003 California recall. In that case, such actual crowding did not confuse voters: “Even though 135 candidates appeared on the ballot, newspapers reported that voters did not have trouble finding the candidate they wished to vote for.”[2]
Historically, there were generally no restrictions on ballot access in the United States until after the introduction of the so-called “Australian ballot” beginning in the 1880s. The eighteenth century prevalence of “voice voting” gave way to paper ballots, but until the 1880s paper ballots were not officially designed and printed by the government but were instead privately produced “tickets” that were distributed (usually by political parties) to the voter, who would take the ticket to the polling place and deposit it in the ballot box. The 1880s reform movement that led to officially designed secret ballots had some salutary effects, but it also gave the government control over who could be on the ballot. As historian Peter Argersinger has pointed out, the reform that conferred power on officials to regulate who may be on the ballot carried with it the danger that this power would be abused by officialdom and that legislatures controlled by the established political parties (specifically, theRepublican and Democratic Parties), would enact restrictive ballot access laws to influence election outcomes, for partisan purposes, in order to ensure re-election of their own party’s candidates.
Perhaps the most prominent advocate of the 1880s ballot reform movement, Dean Wigmore, suggested that “ten signatures” might be an appropriate requirement for nomination to the official ballot for a legislative office. In the twentieth century, ballot access laws imposing signature requirements far more restrictive than Wigmore had envisioned were enacted by many state legislatures; in many cases, the two major parties wrote the laws in such a way that the burdens created by these new ballot access requirements (usually in the form of difficult signature-gathering nominating petition drives) fell on alternative candidates, but not on major party candidates.[3] Proponents of more open ballot access argue that restricting access to the ballot has the effect of unjustly restricting the choices available to the voters and typically disadvantages third party
candidates and other candidates who are not affiliated with the established parties.
[edit]State laws, the Constitution, and international human rights
THE WOMEN WHO WANT TO SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS WILL FIT RIGHT INTO THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS AS WILL ALL GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE NOT POLITICAL BASED THAT WANT CHANGE!
BUT CHANGE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
RECOMMENDED ICON DRESSED IN GOLD.
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT WILL BE ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN AND ALL THOSE WHO FAVOR CHANGE!
The redefining of whom we the people are in American on the North American Continent in the world as a nation state called now referred to as the United States of America, which was founded on the following Declaration and Constitution of the United States of America, is hereby recognized as we the American Independents Tea Party (AITP).
The Third Party American Independent Tea Party Declaration Guide is hereby established to maintain order based on our American Forefathers who founded the United States of America.
We do not claim either party Democrat or Republican but here by establish ourselves as a bonafide Independent Party and claim our rights to form a recognized party in further Voting Procedures of the United States of America by Acclamation.
We do not claim any particular religion or church but remain independent of all religions and institutions leaving the religious preferences up to each individual of our party of the American Independents of the United States.
MISSION
We the people of the American Independent Tea Party establish our party as the Independent Third Party in America based on A Declaration of Independence affirmed July 4, 1776 by our Forefathers on American Soil. We recognize and support our United States flag, which our ancestors protected and were proud to fly in wars fought for our freedom, democracy, and independence in America. We claim the right to use the name America as our own in the new established and recognized Third Organized Party as Independents coming together for one cause to support “We the People of the United States during the 21st Century and beyond.”
We claim our allegiance to the United States of America and the American Flag. We celebrate our Independence Day together on July 4th in an annual American Celebration flying our American Flag proudly, reestablish, and define the need to share in the protection of our ethos for our people, land, culture, and hereby claim that we are organized and established using this American Independent Tea Party Guide.
We honor our Declaration, Constitution, Flag, Nation, People, Land, and protect Freedom and Democracy for ALL.
We also honor America in the growth and Change in the Global Community and the world. We support a Truce and an agreement to suspend hostilities for political purposes and celebrate our holiday of Independence on July 4, and honor our dead who gave their lives for our American Independence.
We are the American Independent Tea Party
July 4, 1776 A DECLARATION
INDEX GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
UNITED NATIONS
UNESCO
Robert’s Rules of Order
A DECLARATION
BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT TEA PARTY
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Half of our Trusteeship Council will be made up of various Independents from over half of the United States appointing leadership voices for each state in the United States. Each state of the American United States and the territories of the United Nations who administer so called “trust territories”. The membership of the Trusteeship Council must at all times include
Five (5) Members of the United Nations Security Council and representatives of interested nations who are not permanent members of the Security Council who administer trust territories only if they so desire to affirm their known position in both the United Nations Security Council as represented at the American Independent Party Meetings for inclusion as a member also with our Freedom and Independence honoring our Sacred Honor as an Independent Party with strong voting membership caucus as Independents at our Tea Parties held for various regions and locations in the United States of America
The National Security Council will be represented with as a separate voice with one member representative of more not to exceed 50% on the elected role in membership of the said American Independent Tea Party.
We the American Independent Tea Party are recognized as being formed by retired military and government personnel and individuals who are independent voters and others who are not necessarily in agreement with the Democrat Liberals or Republican Conservative parties. We recognize all people who desire to join our American Independent Tea Party whether at nation, state, or local government level in American Politics. We are a political movement.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness endows them.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among humankind as man, woman, and child deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The Declaration is updated to include not just men but women and children of all creations not just Americans in America. We protect all who are on our continent as our wanting to be here under the National and Homeland Security Acts. We are perfectly within our rights to invoke the original Declaration of Independence with honor to self, country, family, flag, continent, and complete recognized party as a whole in agreement with voting rights as an organized political party in the United States of America.
A DECLARATION
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UPDATE OF
-*UPDATED VERSION*- GUIDE FOR INDEPENDENT PARTY
BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN IN GENERAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
JULY 4, 1776
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness endows them.
That, to secure these rights, governments, are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed and are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends; it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation of such principles, and organizing powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while the evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity, which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King and/or Queen of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:
Regarding the King of England at the time of July 4, 1776:
He was refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He was forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation til his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant for the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He as dissolved representatives, and representative houses repeatedly for opposing with much firmness his invasions on the rights of people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the damages and dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the populations of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount of payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trials, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trials by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute ruled into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our sears, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed our lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with the circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule or warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
*(We recognize the Indian Nations in the United States of America and do not hold grudges of what was written here in our past declaration of July 4th, 1776 against any Indians and declare we recognize ethnology as of 2010. We welcome Indians as the original people of these United States and ask for all that desire to join our American Independent Tea Party Act. For a re-declaration update to 2010 through December 21, 2012 T. 11:11) We ask that the next election of President of the United States recognize our American Independent Tea Party as American Independents to include Indian Nations.
In every state of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act, which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of the Free People.
(We are American Independents with our own voting caucus to be dealt with and recognized in these United States.)
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British Brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitable interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They, too, have been deaf to the VOICE OF JUSTICE AND CONSANGUINITY.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounced our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of humankind, enemies in war, in peace, and friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, Free and Independent States:
That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and
That, as Free and Independent States, they have Full Power to Levy Way, Conclude Peace, Contract Alliances, Establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and things, which Independent states may of right, do. And, for the Support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, We Mutually Pledge – To each other Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor.
We establish this American Independents Tea Party Guide.
ARTICLES OF ACCEPTANCE TO FORM AND INCORPORATE AS A LEGAL ENTITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH AMERICAN POLITICS FOR REASONS OF INCORPORATING A THIRD PARTY FOR VOTING AS A THIRD PARTY RECOGNIZED AS ORGANIZED IN THE UNITED STATES BASED ON OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION.
We recognize the position of the President of the United States and hereby establish our American Independent Party.
We believe in the position of the American Independent Party
We believe in the name the Tea Party for Rallies and Celebrations.
We agree to organize an administration with regional leaders recognized as states and members of our own party similar to that of the organization of Democratic and Republican parties for public affair purposes only.
We recognize the Constitution of the United States
We recognize the Flag of the United States
We recognize the Pledge of Allegiance
We recognize our Sacred Honor to Nature and Nature’s God.
We recognize the Declaration of Independence
We recognize the American Independent Party
We recognize the American Independent Tea Party Celebration July 4th. We believe in civil rights for all intelligent beings.
We claim rights to incorporate in the State of Delaware. This is a guide to be used in the incorporation of this American Independent Tea Party and election of Officers for Administration and Organization Purposes. Division of the party will be based on regions North, South, Central East, and West. Recommended Cities are San Diego, New York City, Houston, Chicago and Nashville. Other District cities suggested are Atlanta, Phoenix, New Orleans, Saint Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls-Rochester, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Orlando as the center for Florida and Territories.
(Published First Draft 2-12-2010 for public approval in public affairs as directed by American Culture International Relations as ACIR for American Intergovernmental Relations.)Distributed by Secretarial Webmaster – American News Magazine
VOTERS NEED A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE
TIME FOR A REAL 21st CENTURY CHANGE!
THIRD PARTY BALLOT ACCESS FOR PRESIDENT
And in for Independents Running for Elections in USA
Ballot access in the United States of America
( FREE FOR MEDIA ONLINE PRESS FROM WIKIPEDIA)
Overview of ballot access in the U.S.
Each state has its own ballot access laws to determine who may appear on ballots and who may not. According to Article I, Section 4, of the United States Constitution, the authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections is up to each State, unless Congress legislates otherwise.
The primary argument put forward by States for restricting ballot access has been the rational conclusion that setting ballot access criteria too low would result in numerous candidates on the ballot, splitting the votes of similar minded voters.
Example: With Plurality voting, an old but common way to pick the winner, the candidate with the most votes wins, even if it is not a majority. Suppose a district is 55% Democrat and 45% Republican, or vise versa. If there are two candidates which appeal to democrats, and one who appeals to republicans, the vote of the democrats will likely be split between the first two candidates, and the republican will win even though 55% strongly prefer someone else. Plurality races, also known as First past the post, tend to cause consolidation among political parties for this reason. Also, it would be expensive to print 100+ names on a ballot. However, proponents of ballot access reform say that reasonably easy access to the ballot does not lead to a glut of candidates, even where many candidates do appear on the ballot, as was the case in the crowded 2003 California recall. In that case, such actual crowding did not confuse voters: “Even though 135 candidates appeared on the ballot, newspapers reported that voters did not have trouble finding the candidate they wished to vote for.”[2]
Historically, there were generally no restrictions on ballot access in the United States until after the introduction of the so-called “Australian ballot” beginning in the 1880s. The eighteenth century prevalence of “voice voting” gave way to paper ballots, but until the 1880s paper ballots were not officially designed and printed by the government but were instead privately produced “tickets” that were distributed (usually by political parties) to the voter, who would take the ticket to the polling place and deposit it in the ballot box. The 1880s reform movement that led to officially designed secret ballots had some salutary effects, but it also gave the government control over who could be on the ballot. As historian Peter Argersinger has pointed out, the reform that conferred power on officials to regulate who may be on the ballot carried with it the danger that this power would be abused by officialdom and that legislatures controlled by the established political parties (specifically, theRepublican and Democratic Parties), would enact restrictive ballot access laws to influence election outcomes, for partisan purposes, in order to ensure re-election of their own party’s candidates.
Perhaps the most prominent advocate of the 1880s ballot reform movement, Dean Wigmore, suggested that “ten signatures” might be an appropriate requirement for nomination to the official ballot for a legislative office. In the twentieth century, ballot access laws imposing signature requirements far more restrictive than Wigmore had envisioned were enacted by many state legislatures; in many cases, the two major parties wrote the laws in such a way that the burdens created by these new ballot access requirements (usually in the form of difficult signature-gathering nominating petition drives) fell on alternative candidates, but not on major party candidates.[3] Proponents of more open ballot access argue that restricting access to the ballot has the effect of unjustly restricting the choices available to the voters and typically disadvantagesthird party candidates and other candidates who are not affiliated with the established parties.
[edit]State laws, the Constitution, and international human rights
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT TEA PARTY
RURAL AND MIDDLE CLASS DOMINANT
“LET’S HAVE OUR WOMEN VOTE FOR LADY LIBERTY IN GOLD”
“WE NEED A THIRD PARTY! IT’S ABOUT TIME!” TIME TO SPEED UP THE CHANGE!
IT’S ABOUT TIME! VOTE INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY IN ALL ELECTIONS
BE AN INDEPENDENT AMERICAN ACTIVIST WITH THE AITP !
THE THIRD COLOR IS GOLD ON THE THREE MAIN COLOR GROUPS ON OUR PRINTERS.
GOLD AND YELLOW with LESSER RED WHITE AND BLUE FOR OUR AMERICAN FLAG.
MOST ALL AMERICAN INDEPENDENT TEA PARTIES ARE THE RURAL AND MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS THAT WANT CHANGE BUT DID NOT SEE IT FAST ENOUGH!
THEY ARE FOR JOBS IN AMERICA. THEY ARE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN.
THEY ARE RURAL, COUNTRY, FARMERS, FREE THINKERS, EDUCATORS, AND MOST FALL INTO A LOWER TO MIDDLE CLASS CATEGORY
THE VOTES THAT WILL BE RECEIVED FOR A THIRD PARTY CAUCUS CAN BE SPLIT OFF FROM BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
THE WOMEN WHO WANT TO SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS WILL FIT RIGHT INTO THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS AS WILL ALL GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE NOT POLITICAL BASED THAT WANT CHANGE!
BUT CHANGE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
A WOMAN WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY COSTUME IS THE RECOMMENDED ICON DRESSED IN GOLD.
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT WILL BE ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN AND ALL THOSE WHO FAVOR CHANGE!
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS A BONAFIDE ORGANIZED THIRD PARTY AND I AM ALL FOR IT!
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS
TEA PARTY
DECLARATION GUIDE
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
MISSION STATEMENT
NEEDED TO DEFINE THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY
ALSO KNOWN AS THE TEA PARTY CONVENTION
-PROPOSAL-
TO BE ACCEPTED BY TEA PARTY ACCLAMATION
DECLARATION of 2010-2012 to begin December 21, 2012 11:11
AMERICAN CULTURAL EDUCATION ON CONSTITUTION ELECTIONS (ACE) AND AMERICAN POLITICS
The redefining of whom we the people are in American on the North American Continent in the world as a nation state called now referred to as the United States of America, which was founded on the following Declaration and Constitution of the United States of America, is hereby recognized as we the American Independents Tea Party (AITP).
The Third Party American Independent Tea Party Declaration Guide is hereby established to maintain order based on our American Forefathers who founded the United States of America.
We do not claim either party Democrat or Republican but here by establish ourselves as a bonafide Independent Party and claim our rights to form a recognized party in further Voting Procedures of the United States of America by Acclamation.
We do not claim any particular religion or church but remain independent of all religions and institutions leaving the religious preferences up to each individual of our party of the American Independents of the United States.
MISSION
We the people of the American Independent Tea Party establish our party as the Independent Third Party in America based on A Declaration of Independence affirmed July 4, 1776 by our Forefathers on American Soil. We recognize and support our United States flag, which our ancestors protected and were proud to fly in wars fought for our freedom, democracy, and independence in America. We claim the right to use the name America as our own in the new established and recognized Third Organized Party as Independents coming together for one cause to support “We the People of the United States during the 21st Century and beyond.”
We claim our allegiance to the United States of America and the American Flag. We celebrate our Independence Day together on July 4th in an annual American Celebration flying our American Flag proudly, reestablish, and define the need to share in the protection of our ethos for our people, land, culture, and hereby claim that we are organized and established using this American Independent Tea Party Guide.
We honor our Declaration, Constitution, Flag, Nation, People, Land, and protect Freedom and Democracy for ALL.
We also honor America in the growth and Change in the Global Community and the world. We support a Truce and an agreement to suspend hostilities for political purposes and celebrate our holiday of Independence on July 4, and honor our dead who gave their lives for our American Independence.
Overview of ballot access in the U.S.
Each state has its own ballot access laws to determine who may appear on ballots and who may not. According to Article I, Section 4, of the United States Constitution, the authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections is up to each State, unless Congress legislates otherwise.
The primary argument put forward by States for restricting ballot access has been the rational conclusion that setting ballot access criteria too low would result in numerous candidates on the ballot, splitting the votes of similar minded voters.
Example: With Plurality voting, an old but common way to pick the winner, the candidate with the most votes wins, even if it is not a majority. Suppose a district is 55% Democrat and 45% Republican, or vise versa. If there are two candidates which appeal to democrats, and one who appeals to republicans, the vote of the democrats will likely be split between the first two candidates, and the republican will win even though 55% strongly prefer someone else. Plurality races, also known as First past the post, tend to cause consolidation among political parties for this reason. Also, it would be expensive to print 100+ names on a ballot. However, proponents of ballot access reform say that reasonably easy access to the ballot does not lead to a glut of candidates, even where many candidates do appear on the ballot, as was the case in the crowded 2003 California recall. In that case, such actual crowding did not confuse voters: “Even though 135 candidates appeared on the ballot, newspapers reported that voters did not have trouble finding the candidate they wished to vote for.”[2]
Historically, there were generally no restrictions on ballot access in the United States until after the introduction of the so-called “Australian ballot” beginning in the 1880s. The eighteenth century prevalence of “voice voting” gave way to paper ballots, but until the 1880s paper ballots were not officially designed and printed by the government but were instead privately produced “tickets” that were distributed (usually by political parties) to the voter, who would take the ticket to the polling place and deposit it in the ballot box. The 1880s reform movement that led to officially designed secret ballots had some salutary effects, but it also gave the government control over who could be on the ballot. As historian Peter Argersinger has pointed out, the reform that conferred power on officials to regulate who may be on the ballot carried with it the danger that this power would be abused by officialdom and that legislatures controlled by the established political parties (specifically, theRepublican and Democratic Parties), would enact restrictive ballot access laws to influence election outcomes, for partisan purposes, in order to ensure re-election of their own party’s candidates.
Perhaps the most prominent advocate of the 1880s ballot reform movement, Dean Wigmore, suggested that “ten signatures” might be an appropriate requirement for nomination to the official ballot for a legislative office. In the twentieth century, ballot access laws imposing signature requirements far more restrictive than Wigmore had envisioned were enacted by many state legislatures; in many cases, the two major parties wrote the laws in such a way that the burdens created by these new ballot access requirements (usually in the form of difficult signature-gathering nominating petition drives) fell on alternative candidates, but not on major party candidates.[3] Proponents of more open ballot access argue that restricting access to the ballot has the effect of unjustly restricting the choices available to the voters and typically disadvantagesthird party candidates and other candidates who are not affiliated with the established parties.
[edit]State laws, the Constitution, and international human rights
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT TEA PARTY
RURAL AND MIDDLE CLASS DOMINANT
“LET’S HAVE OUR WOMEN VOTE FOR LADY LIBERTY IN GOLD”
“WE NEED A THIRD PARTY! IT’S ABOUT TIME!” TIME TO SPEED UP THE CHANGE!
IT’S ABOUT TIME! VOTE INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY IN ALL ELECTIONS
BE AN INDEPENDENT AMERICAN ACTIVIST WITH THE AITP !
THE THIRD COLOR IS GOLD ON THE THREE MAIN COLOR GROUPS ON OUR PRINTERS.
GOLD AND YELLOW with LESSER RED WHITE AND BLUE FOR OUR AMERICAN FLAG.
MOST ALL AMERICAN INDEPENDENT TEA PARTIES ARE THE RURAL AND MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS THAT WANT CHANGE BUT DID NOT SEE IT FAST ENOUGH!
THEY ARE FOR JOBS IN AMERICA. THEY ARE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN.
THEY ARE RURAL, COUNTRY, FARMERS, FREE THINKERS, EDUCATORS, AND MOST FALL INTO A LOWER TO MIDDLE CLASS CATEGORY
THE VOTES THAT WILL BE RECEIVED FOR A THIRD PARTY CAUCUS CAN BE SPLIT OFF FROM BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
THE WOMEN WHO WANT TO SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS WILL FIT RIGHT INTO THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS AS WILL ALL GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE NOT POLITICAL BASED THAT WANT CHANGE!
BUT CHANGE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
A WOMAN WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY COSTUME IS THE RECOMMENDED ICON DRESSED IN GOLD.
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT WILL BE ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN AND ALL THOSE WHO FAVOR CHANGE!
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS A BONAFIDE ORGANIZED THIRD PARTY AND I AM ALL FOR IT!
The redefining of whom we the people are in American on the North American Continent in the world as a nation state called now referred to as the United States of America, which was founded on the following Declaration and Constitution of the United States of America, is hereby recognized as we the American Independents Tea Party (AITP).
The Third Party American Independent Tea Party Declaration Guide is hereby established to maintain order based on our American Forefathers who founded the United States of America.
We do not claim either party Democrat or Republican but here by establish ourselves as a bonafide Independent Party and claim our rights to form a recognized party in further Voting Procedures of the United States of America by Acclamation.
We do not claim any particular religion or church but remain independent of all religions and institutions leaving the religious preferences up to each individual of our party of the American Independents of the United States.
MISSION
We the people of the American Independent Tea Party establish our party as the Independent Third Party in America based on A Declaration of Independence affirmed July 4, 1776 by our Forefathers on American Soil. We recognize and support our United States flag, which our ancestors protected and were proud to fly in wars fought for our freedom, democracy, and independence in America. We claim the right to use the name America as our own in the new established and recognized Third Organized Party as Independents coming together for one cause to support “We the People of the United States during the 21st Century and beyond.”
We claim our allegiance to the United States of America and the American Flag. We celebrate our Independence Day together on July 4th in an annual American Celebration flying our American Flag proudly, reestablish, and define the need to share in the protection of our ethos for our people, land, culture, and hereby claim that we are organized and established using this American Independent Tea Party Guide.
We honor our Declaration, Constitution, Flag, Nation, People, Land, and protect Freedom and Democracy for ALL.
We also honor America in the growth and Change in the Global Community and the world. We support a Truce and an agreement to suspend hostilities for political purposes and celebrate our holiday of Independence on July 4, and honor our dead who gave their lives for our American Independence.
BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT TEA PARTY
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Half of our Trusteeship Council will be made up of various Independents from over half of the United States appointing leadership voices for each state in the United States. Each state of the American United States and the territories of the United Nations who administer so called “trust territories”. The membership of the Trusteeship Council must at all times include
Five (5) Members of the United Nations Security Council and representatives of interested nations who are not permanent members of the Security Council who administer trust territories only if they so desire to affirm their known position in both the United Nations Security Council as represented at the American Independent Party Meetings for inclusion as a member also with our Freedom and Independence honoring our Sacred Honor as an Independent Party with strong voting membership caucus as Independents at our Tea Parties held for various regions and locations in the United States of America
The National Security Council will be represented with as a separate voice with one member representative of more not to exceed 50% on the elected role in membership of the said American Independent Tea Party.
We the American Independent Tea Party are recognized as being formed by retired military and government personnel and individuals who are independent voters and others who are not necessarily in agreement with the Democrat Liberals or Republican Conservative parties. We recognize all people who desire to join our American Independent Tea Party whether at nation, state, or local government level in American Politics. We are a political movement.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness endows them.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among humankind as man, woman, and child deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The Declaration is updated to include not just men but women and children of all creations not just Americans in America. We protect all who are on our continent as our wanting to be here under the National and Homeland Security Acts. We are perfectly within our rights to invoke the original Declaration of Independence with honor to self, country, family, flag, continent, and complete recognized party as a whole in agreement with voting rights as an organized political party in the United States of America.
A DECLARATION
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UPDATE OF
-*UPDATED VERSION*- GUIDE FOR INDEPENDENT PARTY
BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN IN GENERAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
JULY 4, 1776
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness endows them.
That, to secure these rights, governments, are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed and are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends; it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation of such principles, and organizing powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while the evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity, which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King and/or Queen of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:
Regarding the King of England at the time of July 4, 1776:
He was refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He was forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation til his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant for the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He as dissolved representatives, and representative houses repeatedly for opposing with much firmness his invasions on the rights of people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the damages and dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the populations of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount of payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trials, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trials by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute ruled into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our sears, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed our lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with the circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule or warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
*(We recognize the Indian Nations in the United States of America and do not hold grudges of what was written here in our past declaration of July 4th, 1776 against any Indians and declare we recognize ethnology as of 2010. We welcome Indians as the original people of these United States and ask for all that desire to join our American Independent Tea Party Act. For a re-declaration update to 2010 through December 21, 2012 T. 11:11) We ask that the next election of President of the United States recognize our American Independent Tea Party as American Independents to include Indian Nations.
In every state of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act, which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of the Free People.
(We are American Independents with our own voting caucus to be dealt with and recognized in these United States.)
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British Brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitable interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They, too, have been deaf to the VOICE OF JUSTICE AND CONSANGUINITY.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounced our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of humankind, enemies in war, in peace, and friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, Free and Independent States:
That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and
That, as Free and Independent States, they have Full Power to Levy Way, Conclude Peace, Contract Alliances, Establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and things, which Independent states may of right, do. And, for the Support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, We Mutually Pledge – To each other Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor.
We establish this American Independents Tea Party Guide.
ARTICLES OF ACCEPTANCE TO FORM AND INCORPORATE AS A LEGAL ENTITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH AMERICAN POLITICS FOR REASONS OF INCORPORATING A THIRD PARTY FOR VOTING AS A THIRD PARTY RECOGNIZED AS ORGANIZED IN THE UNITED STATES BASED ON OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION.
We recognize the position of the President of the United States and hereby establish our American Independent Party.
We believe in the position of the American Independent Party
We believe in the name the Tea Party for Rallies and Celebrations.
We agree to organize an administration with regional leaders recognized as states and members of our own party similar to that of the organization of Democratic and Republican parties for public affair purposes only.
We recognize the Constitution of the United States
We recognize the Flag of the United States
We recognize the Pledge of Allegiance
We recognize our Sacred Honor to Nature and Nature’s God.
We recognize the Declaration of Independence
We recognize the American Independent Party
We recognize the American Independent Tea Party Celebration July 4th. We believe in civil rights for all intelligent beings.
We claim rights to incorporate in the State of Delaware. This is a guide to be used in the incorporation of this American Independent Tea Party and election of Officers for Administration and Organization Purposes. Division of the party will be based on regions North, South, Central East, and West. Recommended Cities are San Diego, New York City, Houston, Chicago and Nashville. Other District cities suggested are Atlanta, Phoenix, New Orleans, Saint Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls-Rochester, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Orlando as the center for Florida and Territories.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness endows them.
That, to secure these rights, governments, are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed and are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends; it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation of such principles, and organizing powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while the evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity, which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King and/or Queen of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:
Regarding the King of England at the time of July 4, 1776:
He was refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He was forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation til his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant for the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He as dissolved representatives, and representative houses repeatedly for opposing with much firmness his invasions on the rights of people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the damages and dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the populations of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount of payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trials, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trials by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute ruled into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our sears, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed our lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with the circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule or warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
*(We recognize the Indian Nations in the United States of America and do not hold grudges of what was written here in our past declaration of July 4th, 1776 against any Indians and declare we recognize ethnology as of 2010. We welcome Indians as the original people of these United States and ask for all that desire to join our American Independent Tea Party Act. For a re-declaration update to 2010 through December 21, 2012 T. 11:11) We ask that the next election of President of the United States recognize our American Independent Tea Party as American Independents to include Indian Nations.
In every state of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
We recognize the position of the President of the United States and hereby establish our American Independent Party.
We believe in the position of the American Independent Party
We believe in the name the Tea Party for Rallies and Celebrations.
We agree to organize an administration with regional leaders recognized as states and members of our own party similar to that of the organization of Democratic and Republican parties for public affair purposes only.
We recognize the Constitution of the United States
We recognize the Flag of the United States
We recognize the Pledge of Allegiance
We recognize our Sacred Honor to Nature and Nature’s God.
We recognize the Declaration of Independence
We recognize the American Independent Party
We recognize the American Independent Tea Party Celebration July 4th. We believe in civil rights for all intelligent beings.
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