A League Of Families

(Excerpt from AHP Comprehensive Vision)

Families: The Basic Building Block of Society

We seek to build our party according to an model that honors the role of the family as the basic component of every other societal institution: economy, education, the church and the civil government. We are not the church, nor the civil government, but a voluntary association of likeminded families working together to exert a Christian moral influence on public life, particularly in the areas of law, justice, and civil government.

We compete, not for the backing of today’s powerful special interest groups, but for the hearts and minds of America’s families. Rather than pandering to big business, big labor, and the favor of a host of self-seeking socioeconomic groups, the American Heritage Party was formed specifically to represent the interests of only one group: the American family.

Our vision for growth operates neither from the top down nor from the bottom up, but rather works “to plant the seed, then to spread out the roots, and finally to grow up.” We build by enlisting families at the local level who endorse our vision and who agree to work for our goals. We equip these families with the principles and their articulation and train them as leaders who will in turn recruit, organize and build in their own localities according to a common vision. As a league of families for Christian order and the rule of law, we seek to order our nation and its institutions upon an explicitly Christian worldview that promotes the health and independence of the family unit.

Recovering the Primacy of Local Self-Government

By organizing at the family level we acknowledge and reinforce the fundamental maxim of self-government and civil government that declares: “the best government is the government closest to the people.” More importantly, we offer to a whole new generation of young Americans experience in the all-but-forgotten “vocation” of citizenship in a self-governing society, and thus an unprecedented opportunity to serve God and their country. By equipping and preparing families to serve in national reform through the restoration of fundamental principles we lay the groundwork for a long-term shift in the political climate while preparing leaders for the future.

Mobilizing Men of Christian Allegiance

By building upon a Biblical foundation, we provide a vehicle and a platform from which believers can contend, in good conscience, for the principles in which they believe. By laying our foundation in general Christian principles we seek to mobilize all families and individuals of Christian allegiance to lead the nation toward Christian-historical reform and renewal in an act of Christian cooperative solidarity.