Issue Position: Limited Government

Issue Position

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. - Frederic Bastiat (The Law)
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices…Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. -- Thomas Paine (Common Sense)
Government's sole purpose is to defend Life, Liberty and the Property of individuals. Government is simply the "collective organization" of individuals to defend these rights. By nature government is force. It creates laws and enforces them. Therefore, government should remain limited in power to that which an individual can do. I cannot go across the street and plunder my neighbors property. Likewise, I should not be permitted to send the government to do so either.
I will work to limit government. I will try to repeal laws that are an overreach of just law.

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