Reference: Todd Starnes, July 5, 2024, GOP Prepares to Abandon Culture War Fight, Dump Human Life Amendment
Our National Republican Party must lead on two levels. First and foremost, the National Convention delegates must publicly declare and fully support our shared values.
The Texas State Republican Convention is the most significant, the largest, political event in the country. Texas is, in effect, the flagship party leading the rest of the individual State Republican Parties.
2024 Platform and Resolutions of the Republican Party of Texas
Principles (page 3)
We, the 2024 Republican Party of Texas, believe in this platform and expect our elected leaders to uphold these truths through acknowledgment and action. We believe in:
- “The laws of nature and nature’s God,” and we support the strict adherence to the original language and intent of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutions of the United States and of Texas.
- The sanctity of innocent human life, created in the image of God, which should be equally protected from fertilization to natural death.
- Preserving individual, Texan, and American sovereignty and freedom.
- Limiting government power to those items enumerated in the United States and Texas Constitutions.
- Personal accountability and responsibility.
- Self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman.
- Having an educated population, with parents having the freedom of choice for the education of their children.
- The inalienable right of all people to defend themselves and their property.
- A free enterprise society unencumbered by government interference or subsidies.
- Honoring all of those that serve and protect our freedom.
Our shared principles govern how we work with fellow Republicans and those outside our party with mutual respect. Our principles are not a specific legislative agenda.
Second, all platform planks proposed by the Republican National Convention must comply with Article VI to be in pursuance of the Constitution to become the Supreme Law of the Land, Article I, Section 8, the enumerated (limited) powers of the federal government, and proposed legislative planks must be in compliance with Amendment X: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
National Convention delegates must remember to follow the model of the Constitution.
Our principles guide us in proposing laws in pursuance of the Constitution.
Any proposed planks that go beyond the Federal government’s limited powers, as per Article I, Section 8, must be denied vigorously.
For example, our Texas State Republican Party Platform is pro-family and pro-life. These matters are not issues over which the federal government has authority.
My wish list includes only planks within the federal government’s authority.
When proposing to repeal Amendments, the goal must be to restore sovereignty to the States and limit the Federal government.
John White
Rockwall, Texas
John N. White 