Politics & Government

Georgia Tea Party to Unveil The Marietta Declaration

The Marietta Declaration calls on the President to restore the Constitution consistent with the vision of our Founding Fathers and challenges presidential candidates to end governmental abuses of authority.

The Georgia Tea Party, a non-partisan advocacy group headquartered in Marietta, will unveil The Marietta Declaration at a press conference at Glover Park in Marietta Square on Saturday at 3 p.m.

According to a press release, The Marietta Declaration is "a seminal document that enumerates governmental abuses of authority that over the past one hundred years have incrementally diminished the very principles upon which our nation was founded."

The Marietta Declaration challenges presidential candidates "to end these abuses and establishes the principal tenets upon which to do so."

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The Marietta Declaration is a response to the abuse of Executive power and the lack of Congressional oversight that has caused a century-long drift away from the Constitution as the law of the land, GTPI Board member Jim Jess, who authored the Declaration, said according to the press release.

“The Marietta Declaration calls on the President, as well as the Congress, to restore our Constitution, consistent with the vision of our Founding Fathers," Jess said in the release. "We believe this approach will be an important step in ending the scourge of overreaching government and the consequent imperial presidency, and we are urging all presidential candidates including the incumbent to sign it.”

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The press conference will include a reading of The Marietta Declaration followed by a signing at which citizens, public officials and candidates for all offices will be invited to participate.  

Copies of the Declaration will be distributed at the event and Georgia Tea Party board members will be available for comment.  


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