VETERANS FOR IDAHO VOTERS: US, Idaho constitutions protect rights of voters, not political parties
The Constitution of the United States makes it clear that all government power is based on the will of “We the People.” The right of citizens to vote for governing officials is spelled out in several amendments to that revered document.
The Constitution does not grant any rights to political parties because the Founding Fathers had witnessed the havoc they had wrought in Europe and thought they’d do likewise in America.
George Washington warned us of the dangers that parties and factions posed to our democratic republic in his farewell address. He cautioned that they can “become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”
