What We Stand On

Principles Older Than Any Party: The Constitution and Bill of Rights

Before Democrat or Republican — before any party — there was 1776, and the promise made to every American.

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We the People

The first three words of our Constitution are the whole campaign: We the People. Government does not grant us power — it borrows power from us.

John Trumbull's 1819 painting of the presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress
John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" (1819) — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1776

They Pledged Everything

On July 4, 1776, fifty-six men put their names to a single idea: that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. They knew the price of failure was the gallows — and signed anyway, pledging "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

That courage is the standard. Alexander is running to govern the way the founders meant it: limited government, liberty first, and never trading the people's rights for power.

We the People

It Starts With Us

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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."

The first three words of our Constitution are the whole campaign: We the People. Government does not grant us power — it borrows power from us. Alexander is running to give it back.

The words 'We the People' from the original preamble of the United States Constitution
The preamble of the United States Constitution (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The original engrossed Bill of Rights of 1789
The engrossed Bill of Rights, 1789 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Bill of Rights

Freedoms That Are Not Negotiable

The first ten amendments were written to make one thing unmistakable: our rights do not come from government, and government may not take them away. Speech, faith, assembly, due process, the right to be secure in our homes and our persons — these are the boundaries no leader is permitted to cross.

Alexander pledges to protect our Constitution and your freedoms — not as a slogan, but as the job description of a member of Congress.

1776

The Spirit of Independence

"Independence is not a party. It is the American idea itself."

Integrity Over Party

Not left. Not right. Forward. Decisions guided by what's right for the people — never by what a party demands.

Common Sense Over Ideology

Washington overcomplicates what working Americans already understand. Clear principles, plain talk, honest answers.

The American Dream for Every American

Leave no one behind. Your past shouldn't block your future — and neither should your zip code, your wallet, or your party registration.

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