Constitution The Constitution is the fundamental Rule-of-Law.
Reporting Government and its appointees are accountable, and required to deliver complete, meaningful reports in clear plain English to taxpayers, for all sources and uses of tax dollars.
Accountability Elected government officials and representatives, and their appointees, are accountable for publicly stated commitments and delivering promised results.
Recall Elected government officials and representatives, and their appointees, are subject to recall, discipline and dismissal should they fail to honor their commitments and deliver promised results.
States have an obligation to their citizens to displace Federal services, at the expense of the US Treasury, should states reasonably determine Federal efforts are inefficient or ineffective.
Jeff Grant speaking at 10/1/2011 Morristown TEA Party Rally about our values:
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. Full Text | Hi Resolution Image of the actual document [From www.archives.gov ]
The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Full Text | Hi Resolution Image of the actual document P1P2P3P4 [From www.archives.gov ]
LINCOLN said "Study the Constitution" "Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice."
"An informed citizenry is the bulwark of a democracy."
Thomas Jefferson
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny
-John Basil Barnhill
In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
-Thomas Jefferson