Fourteen Patriotic Precepts

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Alexander Haig

Principled American patriots believe:

1. Every person is born fully and equally human.

2. As human beings, all persons, by nature, have inherent and equal rights.

3. Humans create governments to respect, protect, and secure the natural rights shared by all.

4. Proper governance must ensure the full and equal protection of due process of law for all citizens.

5. The privileges, immunities, civil rights, and civil liberties of any American must rightfully extend to every American.

6. No official at any level of American governance may rightfully disparage, diminish, or damage the equal privileges, immunities, civil rights, and civil liberties of any American.

7. We will never make America a fully great place for anyone to live until we make it a genuinely good place for everybody to live.

8. Americans share a duty to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution and conduct their civic lives in true and active allegiance to it.

9. Though no one American can do everything necessary realize all of America’s ideals, all Americans must do everything we can to help our nation live out the true meaning of its creed.

10. No American of age must be impaired or impeded in the exercise of their voting rights.

11. The just powers of governments throughout America come from the consent of the citizens.

12. Every American of age has a fundamental civic duty to exercise the franchise, and failure to do so is a dereliction of duty.

13. Americans who refuse to participate in the voting process corrode the social contract and fray the ties that bind America into one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

14. As Americans, we inherited a treasure trove of high and benign ideals. Honor binds all of us to defend these treasures resolutely and deploy them wisely for the benefit of our compatriots, our posterity, and our planet.  

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