The Prohibition Party Platform

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

We affirm our loyalty to the Constitution of The United States of

America. We will protect it from violation by legislation, by evasion,

or through judicial usurpation of those rights belonging to the

executive and legislative branches of government, to the states, and to

the people.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

We will conduct foreign affairs with the preservation of American

liberty and independence as our chief objective. America cannot continue

to borrow money to subsidize other nations. Except for emergency

humanitarian help, foreign aid should be phased out. We favor free trade

only on a truly reciprocal basis. We oppose 'Most Favored Nation' trade

status for nations with a history of human rights violations, especially

in regard to forced abortions, as in China.

TAXATION AND SPENDING

Some forty percent of American's earnings are taken by government

taxation, yet the federal government is still adding hundreds of

billions to our national debt each year. We favor: 1. A balanced budget;

2. A limit on the taxing powers of Congress; 3. The sale of government

owned businesses; and 4. A return to the gold standard.

A FREE ECONOMY

We will protect the free-enterprise system by preventing both monopoly

and excessive governmental regulation. We will seek to protect the

consuming public from irresponsible and deceptive business practices.

MONETARY POLICY

The Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power to coin

money and to regulate its value. Therefore, we call upon Congress to

terminate the Federal Reserve System and withdraw The United States from

the World Bank.

LABOR AND MANAGEMENT

Anti-trust laws must be applied both to business and to labor. We will

enforce laws against strikes by federal employees. We will protect the

worker's right to join or not to join a union. We will cease

governmental interference in the collective bargaining process and in

management's employment decisions.

STATES' RIGHTS

The several states which created the federal government have had many of

their rights usurped by all three branches of that government. We will

take strong action to preserve and/or restore the states' constitutional

rights.

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

We support the equality of treatment of all American citizens before the

law. We call on Congress to take action to end all discriminatory quotas

in employment, education, and housing. All political subdivisions should

be apportioned without reference to race or religion of the citizenry.

We will abolish those districts which are already established on the

basis of race.

RIGHT TO LIFE

Over 1,500,000 Americans are killed each year by abortion, infanticide,

and euthanasia. Both dominant parties have placed pro-abortion judges on

the bench, thereby perpetuating this holocaust. We will enact a Human

Life Amendment to restore the right to life which the signers of the

Declaration of Independence said was our right from the Creator.

MILITARY PREPAREDNESS

We pray for peace and rejoice that the prospects of America going to war

have lessened. We favor a sound program of military preparedness based

upon well-paid, highly motivated, volunteer armed forces. American

military personnel should be withdrawn from wealthy nations such as

Japan and Germany, which can well afford to pay for their own defense.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

We recognize that good laws make men free. However, without adequate

enforcement and punishment, violation of the law is encouraged. Law

enforcement officials at all levels, from local policemen to federal

agents, should be empowered and encouraged to support the Constitution.

NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

We believe in national sovereignty and oppose any surrender of this

sovereignty to any international organization, including the United

Nations.

WELFARE

The Prohibition Party pioneered in offering assistance to the

handicapped, the aged, the chronically ill, and families without a

breadwinner. We favor retraining programs and public service work for

the truly deserving who can work. We will stop payments to the

undeserving, who look on welfare as a lifetime 'right.' We oppose

welfare payments to illegal aliens.

THE FAMILY

To protect and preserve marriage, an institution ordained by God, we

favor:

1. More stringent and uniform marriage and divorce laws;

2. An end to all tax rates which discriminate against married people;

3. Disallowance of any legal benefits of marriage to persons living

together in an unmarried state; and

4. Repeal of all laws and rulings which allow governmental interference

in parental authority.

We oppose the proselytizing actions of the homosexual community which

are detrimental to the American family and to the stability of society.

Homosexual behavior should not enjoy governmental protection through

anti-discrimination laws.

EDUCATION

The Tenth Amendment reserves education to the states and the people. We

will end all federal interference in education and abolish the federal

education establishment. Tax dollars spent at the state and local levels

will stretch much farther than those that lose 50% in Washington, D.C.

and that carry many controls for those who accept them. We support full

freedom for private schools and home schooling.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

We believe in the right of individuals to believe, educate, worship,

fellowship, evangelize, and establish religious institutions in

accordance with their beliefs. We will end the discrimination suffered

by religious schools, broadcasters, and other religious groups and

individuals at the hands of federal, state, and local branches of

government.

CHURCH AND STATE

Like America's great George Washington and other founders, we believe

that 'it is impossible to govern the universe without God and the

Bible.' We believe that God should not be separated from America's

public life. We oppose the use of tax money for sectarian purposes. We

support the restoration of our traditional rights to prayer and

Bible-reading in schools and other public institutions. We favor

tax-exemption for all non-profit religious facilities, including

parsonages, church publishing houses, and religious schools. We call for

the repeal of the Social Security tax imposed on religious bodies.

PUBLIC MORALITY

We will strengthen and enforce laws against gambling, illegal drugs,

pornography, and commercialized vice and seek to provide the moral

leadership so sadly lacking in the dominant political parties. We oppose

the promotion of unnatural lifestyles. We oppose state lotteries and

other legalized gambling. Gambling hurts the poor most of all and

inculcates the deceptive 'something for nothing' philosophy in many

young minds.

BALLOT LAW REFORM

Republicans and Democrats have created a two-party monopoly by enacting

increasingly repressive laws that keep most independent and third-party

candidates off the ballot in most states. We will enact a federal law to

restore all legitimate political rights to all third-party and

independent persons and groups. We support term limits for all members

of Congress.

SOCIAL SECURITY

We will reform the present discriminatory and actuarially unsound Social

Security System by:

1. allowing workers the option of enrolling in private plans in lieu of

Social Security;

2. placing the system on a sound actuarial basis;

3. restoring Social Security to its original purpose as a retirement

plan by placing the Medicare and Medicaide programs in a separate

system, and;

4. lifting all restrictions on the amount of money Social Security

retirement beneficiaries may earn.

AGRICULTURE

We propose a return to the free market and an end to all government

production controls and subsidies. This will free farmers from

government coercion and spare consumers from paying artificially higher

food prices.

PUBLIC HEALTH

We favor continued prohibition of such harmful drugs as heroin, LSD,

cocaine, and marijuana. We oppose advertizing and government subsidies

for tobacco products, which now kill over 400,000 Americans yearly. We

oppose our government coercing other countries to accept our tobacco

products. We favor goverment action to facilitate medical answers to

AIDS. We urge the government to combat the immoral sexual conduct and

illegal drug use responsible for most American AIDS cases. Until the

liquor traffic is eradicated, we call for the alcoholic beverage

industry and its products to be placed under the jurisdiction of the

Food and Drug Administration. Such a change will speed up investigation

of health problems relating to alcohol.

THE ENVIRONMENT

Since God has given man dominion over the earth, we believe that

individuals and local and state governments should do all within their

power to protect the environment and safeguard the air and water that we

all must share. We reject extremist views which assign equal value to

people, animals, and trees. Remedies for pollution must be carefully

crafted to avoid widespread unemployment and large increases in the

price of economic necessities.

SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS

We support the constitutional right of law abiding citizens to own and

use guns. We favor imposition of long term prison sentences for those

convicted of using firearms to commit a crime. We deplore the

irresponsible actions and mishandling by the BATF and FBI in their

dealings at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

We will end the massive illegal immigration now tolerated by our

government. We will provide for prompt deportation of first time illegal

entrants and jail terms for repeat offenders.

THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM

We are encouraged by the nation-wide legal drinking age of 21 and the

sharp decline in booze sales, plus a 44% abstinence rate in America.

Alcohol is still America's #1 drug problem, causing death to over

400,000 Americans each year due to accidents, homicides, and health

problems. It is the chief cause of poverty, broken homes, juvenile

crime, political corruption, and wasted manpower in the United States.

The liquor industry is linked to and supports a nation-wide network of

gambling, vice and crime. It exercizes a large measure of control over

the two major political parties and much of the governmental life of our

nation. Our party, alone, offers a program of publicity, education,

legislation, and administration leading to the prohibition of the

manufacturing, distribution, and sale of all alcoholic beverages.

Americans already believe in prohibition (of LSD, cocaine, heroin, etc.)

We will help Americans to realize that alcohol's harmful effects far

outweigh those of all illegal drugs, combined