Ralph Underwood Kedding Foundation

Campaign contributions shall only be allowed from constituents: citizens {not corporations} registered to vote in the contested district. All contributions must be accompanied by a written return, sworn and signed to by donor, and promptly posted on donee’s campaign websiste. Continue reading "Campaign Finance Reform: Entry 1"

Solicitation or receipt of campaign contributions for Federal office should be legal only in the 180 days before the election for a political office, or 120 days for state or local offices.

Continue reading "Campaign Finance Reform: Entry 2"

Campaign contributions may only be used for valid, and enumerated campaign expenditures: office rental, phone service, secretarial, postage, advertising and P.R. travel expense, and consulting fees. But in no case shall be used for personal purposes (imputed income). Continue reading "Campaign Finance Reform: Entry 3"

Campaign Contributions not legally used in the Campaign shall at the end of the election be promptly surrendered to the relevant treasury in their entirety. The concept proposed is that contributions should be spent in the campaign cycle in which the donation occurred. And used only by the politico to which the money was given. Not later. Not on some other agenda. Not on someone else’s campaign. And certainly not for personal purposes after retirement. Continue reading "Campaign Finance Reform: Entry 4"

Campaign funds, including party contributions from political parties and PAC‘s, and the expenditures of campaign contributions shall be audited by the I.R.S.or state revenue agent with such audits made fully public in all detail at least one week before swearing the victor into office. Continue reading "Campaign Finance Reform: Entry 5"

This proposal is to enforce these new limitations with meaningful sanctions, including mandatory jail time. The right to vote is something many of our ancestors died to create and protect.
Continue reading "Campaign Finance Reform: Entry 6"

In the language of our forefathers, prior to our Revolutionary war, the term was “weal� in common use. It derived from the Middle English term common welthe which was used to connote the welfare of the public. These were before the days of Marx’s socialism, and the “nanny state�. The term meant the wellbeing of the economy of the society as a whole. The root “weal� survives intact in the word Commonweal. It is resurrected here today to measure the wellbeing of the citizenry as a whole, and to distinguish this concept from the notion of a welfare state or a socialism. By the time of our Constitution the popular terminology for the concept was� general Welfare� found at article I Sec 8. Continue reading "How do we define the General Weal?"

1. The general weal can only be found by government based upon democratic and representative (republican) principles.

2. Minimum government maximizes liberty of its citizens.

3. The Constitutional plan of a balanced tripartite government is essential for stability in government. Continue reading "The 17 Principles of Government"

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