Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
- Henry Clay
The above statement by Henry Clay summarizes exactly what the Modern Whig Party and the Whig Philosophy or Whiggery is at its core; service for the benefit of the people. We don’t need to list examples about how our American government at all levels is not acting for the benefit of the people. All Americans paying attention can see the corruption, ineffective leadership, and ideological paralysis that are far too prevalent in today’s government and political system.
Because Whigs value differences of opinion and independent thought, we do not necessarily take a position on every particular issue that may be fashionable for the moment. Instead, we propose a program of broad reforms that we believe will strengthen our country as it faces the challenges of the 21st century.
The Modern Whig party of the United States of America is the party for the rest of us, the party of patriots, the party of equality, the party of liberty, and the party of moderates.
We, the Modern Whigs, standing on the broad and firm platform of the Constitution, united by all of its inviolable and sacred guarantees and compromises, relying upon the intelligence of the American people, with an abiding confidence in their capacity for self-government and their devotion to the Constitution and to the United States of America, pledge to go forth with integrity, open-mindedness, pragmatism, and transparency as we pursue our civic duty.
- adapted from the preamble to the Modern Whig Party Constitution and By-Laws
We share the vision of the Whigs who have gone before us. Whigs have a rich history, from our Enlightenment-era beginnings in the 1600s to today. Our Whig forefathers espoused an enlightened approach to life in order to combat then current prejudices and come closer to the truth. This was not only in the field of science and philosophy, but also in governance. Today, more than ever, it is clear we need to replace the existing "truths" of governance in America with some new ones.
Please consider this thought....
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
The Whig email is working properly now. You should be able to email any @modernwhig.org email address. If you have an @modernwhig.org email address it should be working properly to send and receive email. Thanks for your patience.
A very easy way to understand the Americans Elect nomination process and how the Whigs can influence & work within its framework with our candidates. https://secure.americanselect.org/caucus
Whig candidates-
Andre Barnett (Draft candidate)
T.J. O'Hara (Declared candidate)
Michealene Risley (Declared candidate)
Buddy Roemer (Declared candidate)
To support these candidates go to www.americanselect.org and support these candidates to move into the next round on May 22nd.
Effective on 05/11/12 unitl further notice :The Modern Whig Party email system is currently having technical difficulties which likely will not be resolved until early next week. This means any email sent to an @modernwhig.org email address will not get through. Unitl further notice if you need to email any Whig officer at a @modernwhig.org email address please email andrewevanswhigsgmail [dot] com with the name of the person you are trying to email and the message. I will make sure it gets to the intended person asap. Thank you.
In a recent letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun titled “Stay-at-home moms face less pressure,” the author opened with this remark: “... but until a woman works to earn the money to feed and protect her family, she cannot understand fully the critical need this ailing economy has imposed on so many working women and men.”
I cannot disagree more strongly with that statement.
Today dear readers, is Earth Day, a day where many of the more 'environmentally conscious' students at my college (my grandfather would have called them hippies, and he isn't too far off) chose to preach about the virtues of driving a hybrid, he evils of eating meat, and tell how unless we all quit using fossil fuels this instant, global warming is going to turn the world into a Roland Emmerich movie.
These are the questions and answers that I was asked to answer for the CNN Out Front acticle that recently featured the Whigs. I think they were very good questions and unfortunately not all of them were covered in the article, so here they are:
1. How did the Modern Whig Party start? What inspired it?
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