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Issue: Law Enforcement

Principles supporting position:

  • Law and justice
  • Freedom
  • Protect the vulnerable
  • Limited government

Basis for federal government role in the issue:


Constitution Art. II, Sec. 1: “[President] shall...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”; Constitution Art. II, Sec. 3: “[President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…”; 10th Amendment to Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.”

Principle Based Position

 

  • Strong, equitable enforcement of federal laws is crucial
  • States and local governments must make and enforce their own laws without bias pursuant to training and guidelines established jointly between federal and state governments

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