Party Spotlight: America First Party

History: The America First Party was created when some members broke away from the Reform Party in 2002.

Chairman: Jonathan M. Hill

Platform: To preserve and protect America's people and America's sovereignty, to promote economic growth and independence, to encourage the traditional values of faith, family, and responsibility, to ensure equality before the law in protecting those rights granted by the Creator and to clean up our corrupted political system.

Associated Political Ideologies: Conservatism, Economic Nationalism, Non-Interventionism

Economic Issues (50% Government Involvement Grade):

• Limit taxes on goods made in the U.S.A and dissolve property taxes
  
• Reduce income tax until it is non-existent
• Generally opposes Social Security except for congressional pensions
• End corporate welfare
• Withdraw completely from WTO, NAFTA, and the like
• Supports a trade policy built strictly around advancing the American economy
• Subtract the power of corporations

Foreign/Immigration Issues (60% Isolation Grade)

• Use the military to only protect the United States from invasion or attack
• Do not involve the troops under foreign leadership
• Adopt a very strict policy that ensures securing the borders and not offering amnesty
• Require proof of citizenship and residency for a number of things
• Temporarily ban legal immigration

Social Issues (85% Restriction of Freedom)

• Follow policy as governed by the Bill of Rights (for the President too)
• End affirmative action
• Support wholeheartedly the 2nd Amendment
• Denounce mind-altering drugs
• Overturn Roe V. Wade and illegalize abortion
• Against homosexual practices
• Limit the death penalty to crimes after "due process" has been done and the crime is determined as "beyond reasonable doubt"

Total Score: 195

2008 Election Candidate: Unknown, but general Constitution Party support