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'''The United States government should return to the historic libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, abstaining totally from foreign quarrels and imperialist adventures, and recognizing the right to unrestricted trade and travel.''' | '''The United States government should return to the historic libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, abstaining totally from foreign quarrels and imperialist adventures, and recognizing the right to unrestricted trade and travel.''' | ||
===Diplomatic Policy=== | |||
=====Negotiations===== | =====Negotiations===== | ||
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===Military=== | |||
=====Military Policy===== | =====Military Policy===== | ||
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We favor limiting the presidential role as Commander-in-Chief to its original meaning, namely that of the head of the armed forces in wartime. | We favor limiting the presidential role as Commander-in-Chief to its original meaning, namely that of the head of the armed forces in wartime. | ||
===Economic Policy=== | |||
=====Foreign Aid===== | =====Foreign Aid===== | ||
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===International Relations=== | |||
=====Colonialism===== | =====Colonialism===== | ||
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We oppose all government restrictions upon voluntary, peaceful use of outer space. | We oppose all government restrictions upon voluntary, peaceful use of outer space. | ||
==Omissions== | |||
Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. | Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. | ||
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===Diplomatic Policy=== | ===Diplomatic Policy=== | ||
===Negotiations=== | ====Negotiations==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' Intervention by the government in Washington in the affairs of other nations is an attempt to impose our values on those nations by force. | '''The Issue:''' Intervention by the government in Washington in the affairs of other nations is an attempt to impose our values on those nations by force. | ||
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===International Travel and Foreign Investments=== | ====International Travel and Foreign Investments==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' We recognize that foreign governments might violate the rights of Americans traveling, living or owning property abroad, just as those governments violate the rights of their own citizens. Any effort, however, to extend the protection of the United States government to U.S. citizens when they or their property fall within the jurisdiction of a foreign government involves potential military intervention. In particular, the protection of the foreign investments of U.S. citizens or businesses is an unjust tax-supported subsidy. | '''The Issue:''' We recognize that foreign governments might violate the rights of Americans traveling, living or owning property abroad, just as those governments violate the rights of their own citizens. Any effort, however, to extend the protection of the United States government to U.S. citizens when they or their property fall within the jurisdiction of a foreign government involves potential military intervention. In particular, the protection of the foreign investments of U.S. citizens or businesses is an unjust tax-supported subsidy. | ||
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===Human Rights=== | ====Human Rights==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' We condemn the violations of human rights in all nations around the world. We particularly abhor the widespread and increasing use of torture for interrogation and punishment. The violation of rights and liberty by other governments can never justify foreign intervention by the United States government. Today, no government is innocent of violating human rights and liberty, and none can approach the issue with clean hands. | '''The Issue:''' We condemn the violations of human rights in all nations around the world. We particularly abhor the widespread and increasing use of torture for interrogation and punishment. The violation of rights and liberty by other governments can never justify foreign intervention by the United States government. Today, no government is innocent of violating human rights and liberty, and none can approach the issue with clean hands. | ||
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===World Government=== | ====World Government==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' Participation in any form of world or international government threatens the sovereignty of the United States, its citizens and its Constitution. | '''The Issue:''' Participation in any form of world or international government threatens the sovereignty of the United States, its citizens and its Constitution. | ||
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===Military=== | ===Military=== | ||
===Military Policy=== | ====Military Policy==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' The potential use of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to all the peoples of the world, not only Americans. Thus, the objective should be to reduce the risk that a nuclear war might begin and its scope if it does. | '''The Issue:''' The potential use of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to all the peoples of the world, not only Americans. Thus, the objective should be to reduce the risk that a nuclear war might begin and its scope if it does. | ||
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===Presidential War Powers=== | ====Presidential War Powers==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' Recent Presidents have -- on their own through declarations of "states of emergency" and with the assistance of Congress via the War Powers Act -- expanded the role of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to assume the power to wage limited (and not so limited) war without the Constitutionally required explicit Declaration of War by Congress. These wars often occur in secret, funded and/or operated by the CIA, NSA, and other agencies not directly accountable to the People. | '''The Issue:''' Recent Presidents have -- on their own through declarations of "states of emergency" and with the assistance of Congress via the War Powers Act -- expanded the role of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to assume the power to wage limited (and not so limited) war without the Constitutionally required explicit Declaration of War by Congress. These wars often occur in secret, funded and/or operated by the CIA, NSA, and other agencies not directly accountable to the People. | ||
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===Economic Policy=== | ===Economic Policy=== | ||
===Foreign Aid=== | ====Foreign Aid==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' The federal government has used foreign aid as a tool of influencing the policy of other sovereign nations under the guise of aiding needy people in those nations. This forces American taxpayers to subsidize governments and policies of which they may not approve. | '''The Issue:''' The federal government has used foreign aid as a tool of influencing the policy of other sovereign nations under the guise of aiding needy people in those nations. This forces American taxpayers to subsidize governments and policies of which they may not approve. | ||
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===International Money=== | ====International Money==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' The federal government's involvement in international currency markets undermines the stability of the dollar, artificially inflates and deflates the currency and undermines the free market. | '''The Issue:''' The federal government's involvement in international currency markets undermines the stability of the dollar, artificially inflates and deflates the currency and undermines the free market. | ||
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===Unowned Resources=== | ====Unowned Resources==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' Governments and international groups claim the right to unowned resources that they have no jurisdiction over, imposing those claims against individuals by force. | '''The Issue:''' Governments and international groups claim the right to unowned resources that they have no jurisdiction over, imposing those claims against individuals by force. | ||
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===International Relations=== | ===International Relations=== | ||
===Colonialism=== | ====Colonialism==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' United States colonialism has left a legacy of property confiscation, economic manipulation and over-extended defense boundaries. | '''The Issue:''' United States colonialism has left a legacy of property confiscation, economic manipulation and over-extended defense boundaries. | ||
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===Foreign Intervention=== | ====Foreign Intervention==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' Intervention in the affairs of other countries has provoked resentment and hatred of the United States among many groups and nations throughout the world. In addition, legal barriers to private and personal aid (both military and economic) have fostered internal discord. | '''The Issue:''' Intervention in the affairs of other countries has provoked resentment and hatred of the United States among many groups and nations throughout the world. In addition, legal barriers to private and personal aid (both military and economic) have fostered internal discord. | ||
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===Space Exploration=== | ====Space Exploration==== | ||
'''The Issue:''' Government has historically asserted a monopoly on space exploration. | '''The Issue:''' Government has historically asserted a monopoly on space exploration. | ||
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=Omissions= | ==Omissions== | ||
Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. | Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. | ||