Ken's Principles

I am KEN DEGRAAF, and the information below is why I am running to continue to serve you as the REPRESENATIVE FOR HOUSE DISTIRCT 22

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ...that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing; they understood the concept of "inalienable rights," "natural law," and "individual sovereignty," and they understood that the latter could only be maintained with a limited and accountable government. As your advocate, my objective is to return the power over your life and make government accountable to you. We need quality, not quantity legislation, and that legislation needs to roll back the power of government and restore the liberty that has been quietly and continuously stolen from us.

Our rights are not given to us by man, but are entitled to us by "the Law of Nature and of Nature's God," and the role of government is not to bestow these rights but to secure them.

We are "entitled" (we have the legitimate claim) to individual sovereignty as the image bearers of a sovereign God, not as something earned, negotiated, or granted, but entitled. The role of government is not to bestow these rights but to secure them.

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PRINCIPLE 1: INDEPENDENCE

Our Declaration of Independence remains the most

revolutionary document in history by establishing our

government as a servant to sovereign individual citizens.

It defines the proper role of government as "to serve" our Creator-endowed rights, among which are "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"— Not to grant as privileges, but "to secure" them as bestowed by God.

PRNCIPLE 2: LIBERTY

Liberty is not the way of the world; it was only obtained by

blood sacrifice, and it will only be maintained through eternal

vigilance. The tension between the god-state and the God-image

pulls ever downward; it is only by unifying as individuals

that we have the strength to resist being pulled over the edge.

PRINCIPLE 3: INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY

Individual sovereignty can only be maintained in an

environment that allows and encourages individual

responsibility. A government can only resist its tendency to

usurp both by continual attnetionand exertion. We must

always dremember that "A government big enough to give you

everything you want is a government big enough to take from

you everything you have." (GR Ford, 1974)

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