I propose

• As President, I will defend all your constitutional rights
• I will swear my oath of office with my hand on our Constitution
• My advisors will be loyal Americans
• Our government should obey our laws
• Torture is Unamerican and illegal
• The Kelo decision should be reversed
• I support equality before the law for all Americans
• The right to keep and bear arms is a purely individual right
• I am 100% pro-choice
• School-enforced prayer has no place in public schools
• Prohibition -- It failed in 1932. It's still failing in 2008.
• Prisoners of War will receive the full protections of the Geneva Conventions
• We have a President, not an Emperor.

The Oath of Office: The President of the United States takes a solemn oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. We have for centuries honored a Constitution that protects freedom of the press, freedom of peaceable assembly, the right to keep and bear arms, and innumerable other rights.

Defending every right: If elected, I will defend all the civil liberties of all Americans, including in particular the rights guaranteed by the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Fourteenth, and all the other Amendments. There are many places where the Executive Branch has considerable discretion on how it applies and interprets the laws of our land, and I and my appointees will exert maximum discretion to defend your Constitutional Liberties.

Hand on the Constitution: When I take my Oath of Office, I will place my hand exactly where it belongs. That's square on the Constitution and Bill of Rights I am taking an oath to protect. After all, our American Constitution is based squarely on ancient Graeco-Roman laws and precedents, not on the precepts of any particular religion. That's why we have a Senate, just as the ancient Romans did. Our fellow Americans honor a vast range of religious and philosophical beliefs, and I respect and honor the Constitution that protects their right to do so. I will not use the office that all our fellow Americans will have entrusted to me to champion for any particular faith or belief.

Choose advisors who are loyal to our country. A good President will ensure that he is surrounded by advisors and civil servants who love our Constitution and Bill of Rights and who are prepared to make sacrifices to defend them. When a Presidential advisor tells the President that 'the Constitution is not a suicide pact' and urges unconstitutional acts by the Executive, that advisor is urging that the President should overthrow the Republic. A President who is loyal to his Oath and our country will immediately fire that advisor. Then he will instruct his Attorney General to determine whether that advisor also performed criminal acts to put his seditious advice into effect.

Our government should obey our laws: Loyal Americans honor our Constitution and obey the just laws of our land. They do not make warrantless searches of your home. They do not wiretap your telephone calls without a court order. They do not arrest Americans, detain them without trial or access to an Attorney, or torture them. Americans justly demand a Federal government composed of loyal Americans who love their country and obey its laws.

Torture, Extraordinary rendition, and Detention without Trial are crimes against our Republic. Loyal Americans do not kidnap. Loyal Americans do not hand prisoners over to other people, so that those other people may torture for us. Loyal Americans support speedy, public trials with juries, not military kangaroo tribunals. We loyal Americans should ensure that torture, extraordinary rendition, and detention without to trial are brought to an end. Federal employees who made warrantless searches, wiretapped without warrants, or kidnapped and tortured people are disloyal to our country. They should be replaced with loyal, patriotic Americans. Then the facts of their acts should be presented to grand juries for their consideration.

The Kelo Decision - Should your house belong to you, or to the lounge lizard who bribed and seduced your city council? Eminent Domain takings for the benefit of private developers should be banned. Your house should belong to you. Governments should be forbidden to use eminent domain to seize your house and give it to a developer or sports team. If your home is taken for a legitimate public purpose, the fair value of the property should include your emotional loss and the cost of your time and effort to relocate. As a rule of thumb, tripling the market value of the property might give a fair payment.

I support equal rights for all Americans, including marriage, child adoption, child custody, and access to military service. I will vigorously press Congress to honor these rights. For the Federal City, Washington, D.C., I will vigorously encourage Congress to adopt model laws establishing equality before the law for all Americans.

Gays in the military. Don't ask, don't tell, should be repealed. In the words of Barry Goldwater, who at one time commanded the first military units to be desegregated, we need soldiers who shoot straight, not soldiers who are straight. There is no legitimate military interest in the private sexual behavior of soldiers, sailors, or airmen, so long as their conduct is not prejudicial to military discipline. Members of the military who cannot in good conscience serve under this change should be given honorable discharges and, if close to retirement, should be allowed to retire early.

The Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed. There would be real advantages to separating government recognition of civil contracts from marriage. For example, many elderly people are down to a single very close friend who they know and trust. They want that person to make their medical decisions, if they become disabled. A uniform civil union statute would let our elderly fellow citizens have the same guaranteed control of medical care that is now shared between husband and wife. However, untangling the social and religious custom of marriage from the civil contract issues will require an enormous amount of complicated rewriting of our laws.

Freedom of religion. A distance down the road to my home are two churches. One will never marry gays. Another has been doing it for many years. I defend both of their rights to practice their faiths. We should not let our laws be used by one sect to persecute other sects. I defend freedom of belief for faiths that find the beliefs of other faiths to be abominations. I equally reject the demands of some faiths that the power of government should be used to persecute other faiths.

Gun Control - The purely individual right to keep and bear arms, in defense of person, property, and freedom, is central to the continued existence of a free country. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. Only the Libertarian Party stands behind the fundamental meaning of this most fundamental liberty. I will vigorously deploy the Presidential veto pen and other political means to defend and expand your Second Amendment rights.

Abortion - I am 100% in favor of the right of each individual woman to make her own decision either way on abortion. Government has no legitimate role whatsoever in this matter. Under the 14th Amendment, states are subject to all the Constitutional limitations that the Bill of Rights initially placed on Congress. The idea that a state has the right to take away a woman's right to choose is as wrong as the idea that a state has the right to take away an African-American's right to vote.

Prayer in the Public Schools - The notion that public schools have the right to compel students to utter the prayers of a particular sect is totally contrary to any notion of freedom of religion. Private schools and home schoolers may choose as they will in this question.

Prohibition - When I was a little boy, television was filled with gangster prohibition movies. My parents, who were very wise people, told me that there were two certainties about prohibition: It was a total failure. No one would ever be dumb enough to try it again. Now we have drug prohibition, a total failure that wastes tens of billions of dollars, gives criminal records to millions of Americans, and can't even keep pot out of our prisons. It's time to treat marijuana the way we treat alcohol. Yes, we will have people with marijuana problems. We already have people with alcohol problems. We live in an imperfect world. Sometimes the best we can do is contained in the Hippocratic oath of ancient physicians: At least, do not make matters worse than when you started.

Prisoners of war: Real Americans understand that when our Armed Forces capture people, either they are civilians who we captured by mistake, or they are prisoners of war. We release civilians as soon as we get them to safety. It is a sacred duty of every soldier to protect prisoners of war from harm or abuse, because that's a protection for our own soldiers when they are taken prisoner.

We have a President, not an Emperor. Patriotic Americans do not grovel. Patriotic Americans do not mindlessly stand and applaud because a politician enters the room. Leave that behavior for slaves of foreign dictators. Americans, right or wrong, who disagree with the Federal government are true patriots who understand where America was born. Advocates of 'Free Speech Zones', places where demonstrators are herded like sheep behind lines of razor wire, are dangerous subversives who hate our Constitution.