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# Letter to the Editor: ACT Party Constitution
- URL: https://goodoil.news/letter-to-the-editor-act-party-constitution/
- Published: 2021-12-04T20:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-03T19:54:20.000Z
- Author: Letter to the Editor
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

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Dear Editor

I am in full support of ACT’s opposition to the 3 waters theft, scaling back of the crippling red-tape on small business and supporting our Police but I want to see ACT live up to its Constitution.

> Objects and Principles  
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> 7\. The principal object of the Party is to promote **an open and benevolent society** in which individuals are **free** to achieve their full potential. To this end the Party upholds the following fundamental principles:  
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> a) That it is inherent in the nature of human beings as **individuals that they are the owners of their own lives and must be free to act according to their own judgments** so long as they accept and respect the like freedom of others;  
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> b) Freedom of thought, conscience, religion, belief, and expression including the right to adopt, hold opinions, and express those opinions, is essential to a free society and must be promoted, protected, and preserved; c) That the proper purpose of government is to enact and enforce laws, **and to take such action as may be necessary to secure freedom of the individual from the actions of others**, including those others who constitute the government, which could constrain 4 V.070521 individuals from exercising ownership of their own lives.  
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> 8\. The Party subscribes to values and subsidiary principles following from and consistent with its principal object and the fundamental principles, including but not limited to:  
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> a) No one is above the law; all are subject to the same law administered in the same way; b) Laws must be objectively justifiable and objective in their application, implementation and administration;  
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> c) **Regulations and other delegated legislation must be scrutinised and subjected to recall or cancellation if they are not able to be objectively justified**;  
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> d) Each person must be judged as an individual by reference to the person’s own personality, character and actions and not as a member of a group defined by race, gender, sexuality, religion, political belief or other group characteristic;  
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> e) Disagreements must be resolved by dialogue and the application of reason, not by physical force or actions which although falling short of physical force aim to prevent a speaker from being heard;  
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> f) **Voluntary choice** and agreement should be the way in which people deal with each other in everyday life and in the economic market place;  
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> g) The Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement which should be viewed as intended to set an honourable course for the future interaction of individual Maori with individual non Maori.  
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As much as I would like to support the ACT Party I cannot while they are failing to follow their own constitution.

Michael E

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