The Purpose of the New Jersey Constitutional Republicans relates to education and restoration.

Education: Providing numerous opportunities through multiple means to accurately depict the political theory of the American founding and the government derived from that theory. This will include a study of civics which is defined as citizens knowing their rights and how they may effectively participate within a civil society. Its incumbent for the citizens to learn the Constitution and State Constitutions which protect their natural rights and representatives are to be evaluated on their understanding of the Constitution and their faithful dedication to assuring their whole adherence to the Constitution, whether as a legislator, or as an executive. NJCR will begin by helping educate our citizens on discovering the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that protects them.

“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.” Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College.

Restoration: Restoring the initial principles that formed the moral and philosophical standards of the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln best articulated, giving annotation on the high principles of the Declaration of Independence that were in repudiation in his time as they are in ours. The principles of the Declaration of Independence provide the moral, legal, and philosophical standards for the Republican Party today, as it did prior to the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln provided the initial principles by which the Republican Party and its representatives would best represent the natural rights of the people, building a platform and formulating policy. His words offer a new application for us which all Republicans should apply today.

“Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south — let all Americans — let all lovers of liberty everywhere — join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.”Abraham Lincoln-October 16, 1854 Speech at Peoria