Howard Phillips & The Constitution Party Essay, Research Paper

HOWARD PHILLIPS

Howard Phillips is classified as a family man. He is married to Peggy

Phillips and has six children ranging in age from 13 to 34, and 12 grandchildren.

Phillips is, like many politicians, well educated from a well known ivy-league

university. He is a 1962 graduate of Harvard College where he was twice elected

president of the Student Council. In 1974 Phillips left the Republican Party after

twenty years of being a precinct worker, election warden, campaign manager,

Congressional aide, Boston Republican Chairman, and assistant to the Chairman

of the Republican National Committee (not simultaneously).

Phillips headed two Federal agencies under the Nixon Administration.

Phillips ended his Executive Branch career as Director of the U.S. Office of

Economic Opportunity in the Executive Office of the President. Phillips resigned

frrom this position when President Nixon reneged on his commitment to veto

further funding for “Great Society” programs. After his resignation in 1974, Phillips

has been Chairman of TCC, a non-partisan, nationwide grass-roots public policy

advocacy group which has provided leadership in opposition to the Panama

Canal and Carter-Brezhnev SALT II treaties during the 1970’s. TCC want’s to

preserve the U.S. military presence at Panama, deploy SDI, eliminate the

graduated income tax, and to eliminate Federal subsidies to ideological activist

groups.

Phillips is President of the Policy Analysis, Inc. (PAI), a for-profit consulting

firm which provides strategy, management, research, and training services. The

“Howard Phillips Issues” and “Strategy Bulletin” are bi-monthly bulletins published

by Phillips’ PAI. Phillips has published four books: The New Right at Harvard

(1983), Moscow’s Challenge to U.S. Vital Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa (1987),

The Next Four Years (1992), and Victory 2000 (1999). He was the recipient of the

Strategic Resource Group’s William Wilberforce Award for “Ministry to the

Nation/Public Policy” in September, 1996; the National Council on Bible

Curriculum in Public Schools Award, 1995; the Young Americans for Freedom

“Alumnus of the Year” Award, 1990; the National Eagle Forum Award, for

leadership in the pro-family cause and “steadfast opposition to the mischief of the

Federally financed feminists.”

Two years after his last award. Phillip founded the U.S. Taxpayers

(USTP) in 1992. The USTP was committed to restoring the Federal Republic to

its delegated, enumerated functions and returning American jurisprudence to its

original “common law” Biblical foundations. In 1992 Phillips was nominated to be

the USTP candidate for President. In 1999 the USTP was renamed The

Constitution Party at the nominating convention were Phillips was chosen to be

the Presidential nominee.

Phillips is President of The Conservative Caucus Research, Analysis &

Education Foundation and the U.S. Taxpayers Institute, and is Chairman of the

U.S. Taxpayers Alliance.

The Constitution Party

In 1992 a coalition of Independent State Parties united to form the U.S.

Taxpayers Party with the common goal of limiting the Federal Government strictly to

the provisions provided by theConstitution and restoring the traditions of of civil

government that our country was founded upon. The Party name itself was adopted

by some state affilaites, while others opted for a different tilte. The first elction in

which the Party was on the ballot was in 1992, the Party?s presidential candidate,

Howard Phillips was on the ballot in 21 states with Albion Knight Jr. as Phillip?s

running mate. The party gained the recognition of the Federal Election Commission

In 1995, and became the 5th party to do so.The Party reached a ballot position in the

majority of states in 1996. Howard Phillips was the presidential nominee and

Constitutional scholar Herb Titus was the vice-presidential nominee. In all of these

elections Party failed to obtain more than just a minute number of votes. The Party’s

name was changed from the U.S. Taxpayers Party to the Constitution Party at the 1999

national nominating convention by the convention delegates. The delegates,

believing that the new name better reflected the Party?s primary policy approach of

enforcing the U.S. Constitution?s provisions and limitations, changed it to it’s new

name.Also at the convention, Howars Phillips was re-elected as the Party’s 2000

presidential nominee and Dr. J. Curtis Frazier-from Missouri- as the vice-

presidential nominee. The Constitution Party is expected to achieve full presidential

ballot access in 42 states and qualified write-in candidate status in 6 others for the

2000 elections. This makes for a total of 48 states where people will be able to cast

their votes for Constitution Party candidates. The Constitution Party stands firmly on

the principles of government laid down by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration

of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Unlike most other political parties, The

Constitution Party does not believe in revising the Constitution or that the

Constitution is, or ever will be out-dated. This means that they oppose drastic or

extreme Constitutional amendments. Instead they believe all powers not delegated

to the government should go to the state legislature. The Constitution Party believes

that the American government has ignored it’s roots and principles and that it should

return to it’s limited scope and structure. The Party also want’s to, as they put it, “protect

all innocent life; protect liberty, not suppresse it; and allows the free pursuance of

happiness, not regulation of it”. The Party wants to re-vamp the “distant Washington

government”, and returnn it to the state and small communities.

- http://www.constitutionparty.com/howard_phillips_candidate_profile.htm

– www.phillips2000.com/

– www.constitutionparty.com/

– www.issues2000.org/Howard_Phillips.htm