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P.O. Box 10865 Prescott Az. 86304
Phone: 928-925-9894
Prescott Tea Party
Core Values and Mission Statement

The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government
spending, and the intrusion of government into areas for which it has
no constitutional sanction. The following core values bind us together
as a group:

Core Values

• Uphold the Constitution of the United States of America
• Free Markets
• Limited Government
• Fiscal Responsibility

Mission Statement

Our mission is to organize, educate, and inform our fellow citizens to
secure public policy consistent with our core values. We will unify
and we will exercise through all legal means available to us, our
power to effect the election of local, state, and federal candidates
who espouse our core values.

Principles of the Prescott Tea Party

Prescott Tea Party as an organization believes in the Constitution of
the United States, Free Markets, Limited Government, and Fiscal
Responsibility. The Prescott Tea Party is a non-partisan grassroots
organization of individuals united by our core values derived from the
Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill Of Rights, the
Federalist Papers, and the Declaration of Independence.

Core Values:

Uphold the Constitution: The core values of Prescott Tea Party are the
same values upon which the United States of America was founded, and
are rooted in our belief in Natural Law. They derive from a belief in
free will, the primacy of individual and personal responsibility. We
will uphold and follow the original intent of the Constitution of the
United States.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal
liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were
indivisible, as do we. Our current governments’ interference distorts
the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic
liberty therefore we demand limited government.

Limited Government: We, the members of The Prescott Tea Party, are
inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the
United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is
possible to know the original intent of the government our founders
set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we
support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the
Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and
for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty
of the individual, within the rule of law.

Fiscal Responsibility: A limited government, designed to protect the
blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible. Our current
governments’ actions have resulted in onerous burdens of taxation.
This increasing taxation unjustly restricts the very liberty limited
government is designed to protect and abrogates the rights the
Constitution is designed to secure. In addition, the increasing
national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty. We
therefore demand from our governments: fiscal responsibility, a plan
of reduced spending, and balanced budgets without the creation of
further debt.