The following is a resolution that was submitted by several precincts in Lexington and precincts in other counties all over the state during the recent reorganization of the South Carolina Republican Party. [UPDATE: This and other resolutions were passed at the Lexington County Convention!]  It is an attempt to put the party back on the straight and narrow path of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and equality under the law.  The journey will be a long one but it all starts with an idea.  This and other resolutions to follow are in pursuit of our unalienable rights and an effort by the people to reinstate some level of control over a state government run by Republicans that refuse to do the right thing almost all the time.  If you are interested in restoring limited government to South Carolina, please get involved and start learning and monitoring and, most of all, talking about what your elected officials are doing--L.C.

Resolution
JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE

Whereas the people of South Carolina should have confidence in the judicial process and should be more assured that judges make decisions in a manner that is independent of the legislature whose laws they judge; and

Whereas South Carolina is the only state in the nation in which a single branch of government, the legislature, entirely controls the selection of judges; and

Whereas in a state in which there is a proper separation of powers, the governor should nominate judges, with advice and consent from the Senate as based upon the federal model; and

Whereas on many occasions over the years, the people have been presented evidence of judges and legislators that is indicative of abuse and improper conduct in office whether those actions have resulted in criminal convictions or not; and

Whereas common sense dictates that there is no proper check possible regarding the proper behavior of the judiciary nor is there any proper check possible to the power of the legislature when one body has undue control and influence over another; and

Whereas no living person is exempt from temptation and, though good behavior is expected from those persons in all branches of government who are representatives of the people, it is universally recognized that abuse of power is strongly enabled and encouraged by the lack of a proper system of checks and balances as should be practiced here under the American tradition of separation of powers;

Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the ________________ County Republican Party of South Carolina calls upon the General Assembly to enact legislation for an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Carolina that will provide for those judges currently selected and approved by the General Assembly to instead be appointed by the Governor for set terms that are to be served upon consent of the State Senate.

_______ day of _______________ in the 2013th year of our Lord and the 236th year of our Republic.
______________ Precinct, to be considered and adopted by the ________________ County Republican Convention and the South Carolina Republican Convention.

The following is a resolution that was submitted by several precincts in Lexington and precincts in other counties all over the state during the recent reorganization of the South Carolina Republican Party.  This and other resolutions were passed at the Lexington County Convention.  It is an attempt to put the party back on the straight and narrow path of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and equality under the law.  The journey will be a long one but it all starts with an idea.  This and the other resolutions to follow are in pursuit of our unalienable rights and an effort by the people to reinstate some level of control over a state government run by Republicans that refuse to do the right thing almost all the time.  If you are interested in restoring limited government to South Carolina, please get involved and start learning and monitoring and, most of all, talking about what your elected officials are doing--L.C.

Resolution

FULLY INFORMED JURIES TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE

Whereas the jury is an independent body whose duty is to judge the facts of the case, the fairness and applicability of the law, and only then come to a just verdict; and

Whereas it is the traditional legal authority of jurors to protect human rights by refusing to enforce corrupt laws or by refusing to enforce unjustly or unequally applied laws; and

Whereas  the jury, being necessary for the administration of justice, must be fully informed of its duties and authorities; and

Whereas the jury of one's peers is also one of the last lines of defense in protecting the citizen from the state when office holders are abusing their power and authority;

Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the ________________ County Republican Party calls upon the General Assembly of South Carolina to enact legislation to require that all jurors be fully informed in writing at the time of being summoned for duty and when present in the courtroom of the historical role of the jury in defending human rights, the jury’s authority and duties to determine, in addition to the facts of the case, the Constitutionality, applicability, and the fairness of the law in relation to our unalienable rights; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the General Assembly of South Carolina is called upon to enact legislation to require that the jury is explicitly informed of their right, as a jury of peers, to nullify the application of any law as it relates to the case at hand in reaching their verdict; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the General Assembly of South Carolina is called upon to enact legislation to prohibit any action, and to overturn any laws or regulations, that might deny any person the fundamental right to trial by a fully informed jury and to impose a penalty of law for any person, regardless of what office he may hold, who is engaging in any act that would deny that fundamental right.

_______ day of _______________ in the 2013th year of our Lord and the 236th year of our Republic.
______________ Precinct, to be considered and adopted by the ________________ County Republican Convention and the South Carolina Republican Convention.

The following is a resolution that was submitted by several precincts in Lexington and precincts in other counties all over the state during the recent reorganization of the South Carolina Republican Party.  This and other resolutions were passed at the Lexington County Convention.  It is an attempt to put the party back on the straight and narrow path of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and equality under the law.  The journey will be a long one but it all starts with an idea.  This and the other resolutions to follow are in pursuit of our unalienable rights and an effort by the people to reinstate some level of control over a state government run by Republicans that refuse to do the right thing almost all the time.  If you are interested in restoring limited government to South Carolina, please get involved and start learning and monitoring and, most of all, talking about what your elected officials are doing--L.C.

Resolution

EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW

Whereas our country was founded on the principle that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;" and

Whereas Article I, Section 3 of the South Carolina Constitution states that "The privileges and immunities of citizens of this State and of the United States under this Constitution shall not be abridged, nor shall any person be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws;" and

Whereas the burden should be placed upon the general assembly to show that laws passed in that body do not violate the state constitution's mandate to apply equally to everyone; and

Whereas the constitutional mandate is and has been ignored by members of the general assembly; and

Whereas the tax code and other regulations are routinely used by the general assembly in an unequal manner to punish the purchasing of certain legal products and subsidize the purchase of others, thereby unequally punishing or rewarding the manufacturers, sellers, and consumers of selected legal products; and

Whereas corruption in the form of "crony capitalism" or "corporate welfare" has always existed in the process of making laws when legislators are allowed to pick and choose who is punished and who is rewarded in defiance of the very definition of a free marketplace; and

Whereas the need exists to broaden the tax base and ease the burden on each individual taxpayer and business; and

Whereas the need exists to attract businesses and investments to the state of South Carolina and the United States economies by creating an environment for businesses to compete in which is not subject to the practices of selective, punitive taxation and regulation that create long term uncertainty and thereby increase the related extra costs of doing business;

Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the ________________ County Republican Party of South Carolina supports the enforcement of the God-given principle and constitutional mandate of equality under the law so that the citizens employed by or engaging in lawful branches of business within the the state of South Carolina are not unequally burdened with, nor exempted from, taxes or regulations passed by the general assembly.

_______ day of _______________ in the 2013th year of our Lord and the 236th year of our Republic.
______________ Precinct, to be considered and adopted by the ________________ County Republican Convention and the South Carolina Republican Convention.

The following is a resolution that was submitted by several precincts in Lexington and precincts in other counties all over the state during the recent reorganization of the South Carolina Republican Party.  This and other resolutions were passed at the Lexington County Convention.  It is an attempt to put the party back on the straight and narrow path of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and equality under the law.  The journey will be a long one but it all starts with an idea.  This and other resolutions to follow are in pursuit of our unalienable rights and an effort by the people to reinstate some level of control over a state government run by Republicans that refuse to do the right thing almost all the time.  If you are interested in restoring limited government to South Carolina, please get involved and start learning and monitoring and, most of all, talking about what your elected officials are doing--L.C.

Resolution
RESTORATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY

Whereas Article I, Section 10 of the US. Constitution states: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility;" and

Whereas  the sovereign monetary power entrusted to the Federal Government by the States has been unconstitutionally handed over to private corporations, i.e. the Federal Reserve System and its member banks; and

Whereas the Federal Reserve is a private entity that has been illegally granted unlimited and illegal power by Congress to create money and to force its circulation upon the population by "legal tender" laws; and

Whereas the Federal Reserve has replaced sound public money consisting of Constitutionally mandated gold and silver coin with its own private fiat money consisting of Federal Reserve notes and bank credit backed by no commodity; and

Whereas by these means, the Federal Reserve has seized control of the national economy and every American’s economic destiny through the mechanisms of inflation and deflation through manipulation of the value of the fiat money supply; and

Whereas the taking of value directly from the holdings of the citizenry is a most insidious form of servitude that impoverishes them by allowing others in control of the money supply to illegally and immorally profit from their labor and accumulated property; and

Whereas real local economies have been sacrificed to a theoretical national economy and productive industry has been transported overseas amid assurances that we will all prosper in the so-called “new” or service economy; and

Whereas the ballooning balance of trade deficit and rising unemployment among our fellow Americans show how false these assurances are; and

Whereas the Federal Reserve was created to inflate, and the inflation it has spawned has created an economy based on speculation and economic bubbles instead of honest production of goods and services; and

Whereas when there are economic downturns, the creators of these bubbles turn to Congress to seek relief at the expense of taxpayers who have already been robbed of much wealth further depressing the economic well being of our county; and

Whereas the dangerously large cycles of economic booms and busts ruin countless lives and render impossible any stable prosperity necessary for the pursuit of happiness; and

Whereas replacing public money with private bank credit means that all money must be borrowed into existence and, as a consequence, Americans are falling into a nightmare of debt; and

Whereas the national debt, a perpetual prior claim on the nation’s production, stands at well over $16 trillion, with many trillions more in “off-the-books” unfunded federal liabilities and, further, businesses and households are unjustly held liable for  $44 trillion more; and

Whereas federal courts have removed State usury limits to benefit the banking corporations so that Americans now pay exorbitant credit card interest and the very poor pay even more exorbitantly; and

Whereas the present crisis threatens a catastrophe more encompassing and ruinous than the Great Depression and yet the only “cure” we are offered is more of the disease itself: massive inflation, huge bailouts, and astronomical government spending and piling on of debt which  will only prolong and deepen the crisis and destroy the dollar, and with it, our remaining wealth; and

Whereas it is the Constitutional right and duty of the State to interpose their sovereignty to protect their citizens from federal abuse of the law, usurpation, and despotism; the role of State interposition being an inseparable part of the checks-and-balances principle upon which the Constitution was drafted and the Republic was founded;

Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the ________________ County Republican Party calls upon the General Assembly of South Carolina to enact legislation to exercise the sovereign rights and duties of the State by taking the following actions:

Provide that gold and silver coins, minted foreign or domestic, or gold and silver exchanged by weight and measure shall be legal tender in this State, and to provide that no person may compel another person to tender or accepts gold or silver unless agreed upon by the parties: and

Refuse to further allow the taxes paid by the citizens of South Carolina to bail out banks or corporations and enact necessary laws and safeguards to stop the unjust confiscation of the wealth of the citizens of South Carolina; and

Reaffirm and exercise the right of the State of South Carolina the power to regulate interest rates within the State as its citizens see fit.


_______ day of _______________ in the 2013th year of our Lord and the 236th year of our Republic.
______________ Precinct, to be considered and adopted by the ________________ County Republican Convention and the South Carolina Republican Convention.