Document:National Platform 2018 Changes Mark-Up: Difference between revisions

'''<span style="color:#FF0000"><s>The prescribed role of g</s></span><span style="color:#36C"><u>G</u></span>'''overnment '''<span style="color:#36C"><u>force must be limited</u></span>''' '''<span style="color:#FF0000"><s>is</s></span>''' to '''<u><span style="color:#36C">the </u></span>''' protect'''<u><span style="color:#36C">ion of</u></span>''' the rights of '''<span style="color:#FF0000"><s>every</s></span>''' individual'''<span style="color:#FF0000"><s>s</s></span>''' including the right to life, liberty and property'''<span style="color:#36C"><u>, and governments must never be permitted to violate these rights</u></span>'''. '''<s>Criminal l</s></span><span style="color:#36C"><u>L</u></span>'''aws should be limited in their application to violations of the rights of others through force or fraud, or to deliberate actions that place others involuntarily at significant risk of harm. Therefore, we favor the repeal of all laws creating "crimes" without victims, such as '''<span style="color:#36C"><u>gambling,</u></span>''' the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes'''<span style="color:#36C"><u>, and consensual transactions involving sexual services</u></span>'''. We support restitution to the victim to the fullest degree possible at the expense of the criminal or the negligent wrongdoer. The constitutional rights of the criminally accused, including due process, a speedy trial, legal counsel, trial by jury, and the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty, must be preserved. We assert the common-law right of juries to judge not only the facts but also the justice of the law. '''<span style="color:#36C"><u>We oppose the prosecutorial practice of "over-charging" in criminal prosecutions so as to avoid jury trial by intimidating defendants into accepting plea bargains.</u></span>'''