FREE ESSAY ON HOWARD PHILLIPS & THE CONSTITUTION PARTY

HOWARD PHILLIPS & THE CONSTITUTION PARTY

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.
Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- http://www.constitutionparty.com/howard_phillips_candidate_profile.htm
- www.phillips2000.com/ 
- www.constitutionparty.com/ 
- www.issues2000.org/Howard_Phillips.htm