How to Be Activist for Individual Rights and Limited Government

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Consider whether you -- as a conservative

   Rights have no price tag except the cost to protect and assure our individual rights from tyranny, control or inaction (when action is needed). ,, What would you say are the principles needed to maintain equal rights and freedom The principle is Protecting Your Individual Rights with limited government and whether a law is needed and proper.
   
   And so, , But, decide whether: they may seem to detract from equal rights and individual freedom. they support your freedom as an individual to do right for yourself, your family, your economic life and freedom. ,,, Pushing any proposal because of its size (smaller or larger) when it is not acceptable even if its small or done at a lower cost.
   
   Restricting personal rights by the government.
   
   That is why the Bill of Rights states that "Congress shall make no law..." in these regards; it does not say that some laws are good.
   
   So would you or would you not support:
   Free or socialized business
   -- Higher or lower taxes and fees on industries and factories
   -- Centralized, national government imposing school curriculum
   -- Federal requirements for cities, states, businesses and homes by centralized laws that should be regulated locally
   -- although some standards are needed, government is not the best source of these for market economy and business, as the layers of government are slow to adapt, can stymie rapid innovations with inefficient, expensive and overbearing rules and regulations. ,,,,, You are free to pursue your own happiness. , To protect freedom to act is a main job of government. ,, Think about whether new proposals protect the liberty of individual Americans, or does it threaten liberty? Is there any "right" basis for opposing one law bill because it is "big" while accepting another because it is "small." Any amount of legislation may grow in scope over time like the income tax.
   
   A "small" amount of taxes and programs were the foothold for today’s massive government programs... , Be trained, educated and gainfully employed or employing others. , You are still free to act for the achievement of one's own prosperity and happiness—including: the right to help others voluntarily, should both parties wish, and the right to fail if you make a mistake with limits to what government officials may do about that. ,,
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   Step 2: liberal or progressive -- regardless of party would oppose calls for raising taxes and for higher government spending -- and taking-on more politicians promises: making "new-expenses"?

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   Step 3: Support candidates who advocate "free-rights".

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   Step 4: Research the government spending and programs—as politicians pose and posture to appear as if they are against the rapid growth of spending that has continued for the last century.

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   Step 5: Consider getting involved -- personally engaged -- in seeking politically the changes that you need.

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   Step 6: Avoid ignoring or judging government programs by size between "big" and "small" government which is not necessarily the main point.

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   Step 7: Vote your way: Decide whether to vote for or against the politicians and their programs that lead to government acting in areas of individual determination and opportunity

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   Step 8: everyday life.

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   Step 9: Decide whether you individually will support "big or small" programs where you find them desirable

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    Step 10: and vote for or against leaders and representatives who support big or small: defense of America from military attack

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    Step 11: private property rights and protection of every citizen’s freedom of speech

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    Step 12: support of the right to bear arms self defense

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    Step 13: and individual rights of self-determination (learning

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    Step 14: education

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    Step 15: training

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    Step 16: working

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    Step 17: saving).

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    Step 18: Decide limits on what government might do -- like these: Telling Americans what non-violent belief

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    Step 19: organization or church they may

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    Step 20: should or must not belong to -- or to punish or harass Americans for belonging to a particular church or peaceful ideology

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    Step 21: considering the size of that program and the scope of the law.

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    Step 22: Decide whether to support Federal government ever having authority in such local issues.

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    Step 23: Watch for and decide for or against compromises that increase the taxes levied against you and bring new restrictions on your rights and complications on your freedoms.

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    Step 24: Support changes that protect and assure individual inalienable rights to: life

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    Step 25: liberty and the pursuit of happiness as a major purpose of government.

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    Step 26: Consider seeking legislative representatives who want and will work for limited government including opposing and possibly defeating increased government spending in any principled way so that your freedoms can be heard and felt.

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    Step 27: Defend everyone’s freedom to think

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    Step 28: to act and to prosper

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    Step 29: but not to guarantee the goods produced by another.

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    Step 30: Decide whether to require taxation for personal (non-emergency) needs to assure individual rights and personal freedom.

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    Step 31: Realize that the U. S. Constitution does not state that the government can make a totalitarian or police state in the U.S.A. as has been done in other places to promote government control of all phases of daily life.

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    Step 32: Understand the powers constitutionally belonging to the American government.

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    Step 33: Find out how to fend for yourself.

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    Step 34: Press for independent thought (including speech and religion)

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    Step 35: work and production

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    Step 36: and business with others

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    Step 37: under the rules of law—as the meaning of Individual Rights.

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    Step 38: Focus on the "Principle of Individual Rights"—and defend that by your vote and the right to communicate and propose freedom regardless of all opponents

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    Step 39: of any size.

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    Step 40: Oppose government where freedoms becoming limited and regulated in "small" ways that may grow and spread until many areas of life are dictated and specified by officials based on government "services and needs" that may come to bear in many areas of life and threaten freedom.

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