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21st Century Contract With America
21st Century Contract With America
Dear Fellow Citizen, Americas exceptional nature is based on the self-evident truths contained in the Declaration of Independence. Our rights are endowed by our Creator and they are unalienable. If we are to solve our jobs crisis and meet the challenges of the 21st century, we need a plan for national renewal based on these timeless American values. That plan is the 21st Century Contract with America. The 21st Century Contract with America will be much larger than the original, and will consist of four parts. 1. 2. 3. 4. A set of legislative proposals to shift America back to job creation, prosperity, freedom, and safety. A First Day project of Executive Orders to be signed on inauguration day to immediately transform the way the executive branch works. A training program for the transition teams and the appointees who will lead the shift back to Constitutional, limited government; A system of citizen involvement to help us sustain grassroots support for change and help implement the change through 2021. 4. 5. 3. 1. 2.
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This brochure outlines the basics of the legislative proposals in the 21st Century Contract with America. Visit Newt.org/Contract for more information on these proposals and details of how the bills will be developed, to receive the 21st Century Contract with America Newsletter and offer suggestions for developing and improving the 21st Century Contract with America. Developing and then implementing the 21st Century Contract with America will be a team effort of millions of Americans. Im asking Americans to be with me, not just for me, because it will take all of us, working together, to change Washington and to save our country. Your friend 9. 7.
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10. Enforce the Tenth Amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back to the states, respectively, or to the people, as the Constitution requires. Over the next year, state and local officials and citizens will be asked to identify the areas which can be transferred back home.