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The America First Party of Mississippi is a political party. As of September 2019, it was a ballot-qualified party in Mississippi.

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America First Party of Mississippi
Basic facts
Location:	Greenwood, Miss.
Type:	Political party
Top official:	John Allan Goodman, Vice chair
Year founded:	2000
Website:	Official website

The America First Party of Mississippi is the Mississippi political party affiliate of the national America First Party. The group is headquartered in Greenwood, Miss.

The America First Party of Mississippi was originally established in 2000 as the Mississippi state affiliate of the national Reform Party. In 2002, a group of national Reform Party members left the party and founded the America First Party. The Mississippi affiliate followed suit and changed its name to the America First Party of Mississippi during its 2002 state convention. The party believes "that the means to revitalizing our nation is to revitalize our people and the means to restore our nation is to restore just and Constitutional governance."

The America First Party of Mississippi first gained ballot access in 2006. As of February 2016, the group was a recognized political party in Mississippi.

Platform

The party's stated platform is composed of 22 main issues:

• Right to life
  "Because all human life is precious, the Party calls upon the state legislature to establish by law the personhood of every human being from the moment of conception until natural death, thereby bringing all intentional abortions under the criminal sanction of the present statutes punishing manslaughter and murder."
• Right to bear arms
  "Because the keeping and bearing of arms is essential for the preservation of the people's liberty, safety, and sovereignty, the Party urges the state legislature to enact laws restoring the right of law-abiding adult citizens to carry firearms, concealed or otherwise, in all public places without any permit, including the schools and other places where children are in need of protection."
• Right to own property
  "Because a man's home is his castle, and the right of property must be respected, the Party calls upon the state legislature to abolish all ad valorem property taxes."
• Right to property without seizure
  "Protection of private property being fundamental to a society that is ordered, just, and free, the Party demands that the State Legislature and the Courts strictly construe the powers of eminent domain to be limited to the acquisition of property to be held in the name of the people, and in no way to be conveyed, leased, sold, or utilized by any party other than the people and for none other purposes than roads, bridges, utilities, and other facilities of a public nature."
• General limitation on federal powers
  "Knowing that the rights and powers of the Federal Government are only those ceded by the sovereign states under the language of the United States Constitution, the Party declares, consistent with the Tenth Amendment, all actions by the federal executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government not authorized by the plain language and original meaning of the Constitution to be null and void, and their perpetrators to be outlaw and traitors against the Constitutional Republic."
• Judicial accountability
  "The integrity of the court system being crucial to maintaining public confidence that justice will be done, the Party calls for a constitutional amendment to open all proceedings of the Judicial Performance Commission to public scrutiny."
• School boards
  "Because the power to tax the people ought only to lie in the hands of elected officials, and to ensure public accountability to the voters, the Party demands the abolition of all appointed school boards, and their replacement with elected boards."
• Circuit and chancery judges
  "Because the people ought not have imposed upon them judges elected by citizens of other districts, the Party calls for the "at large" election of circuit and chancery court judges within multi-judge districts."
• Selection of party nominees
  "The right of association being necessary for free political and social organization, the Party calls upon the state legislature to permit political parties to select their nominees for public office in a manner to be determined by the respective parties, removing the requirement for primaries which permit non-party members to interfere with nominee selection."
• Voter ID
  "The integrity of the voting process being essential to the maintenance of a republican Constitutional government, the Party calls upon the state legislature to impose the requirement of photographic voter identification."
• Open public records
  "To ensure that the public's business is conducted openly and honestly, the Party calls upon the state legislature to broaden the Public Records Act to include all election records and voter registration records without exception, and all public hospital records excluding those related to personnel matters and to individual patients."
• Sovereign immunity
  "It being necessary that the right of the citizens to petition the courts for relief and redress from government misconduct be restored, and that such relief be actually granted and not avoided by legal artifice and special privilege, the Party demands the abolition of the protection of sovereign immunity, and that the government and its agents be placed under the same standards of negligence, misconduct, criminal prosecution, and civil damages that now apply to the citizens."
• Illegal immigration
  "It being necessary to preserve the financial stability and social order of our state, the Party calls upon the state legislature to ban the provision of any social, welfare, or educational services to illegal aliens."
• English language
  "Because fluent use of the English language is essential to becoming an educated and productive citizen, the Party urges the state legislature to enact legislation outlawing the use of any language other than English in the public schools of the state, except for the limited purposes of teaching the use of a foreign language."
• Corporate tax breaks
  "Because special tax breaks unfairly penalize small business and the service industries, and since they are available only to powerful companies with political pull, the Party calls upon the state legislature to outlaw all tax incentives and exemptions for economic development."
• Income tax
  "Because an income tax unlawfully entangles the government with the private business of the citizens, the Party calls upon the state legislature to abolish the income tax, and provide that the only means of taxation shall be a uniform sales tax imposed upon consumer purchases, along with user, license, and filing fees."
• Home schooling
  "Affirming the absolute parental right to direct the education of one's own children, the Party supports the right of parents to educate children at home, without any supervision or interference whatsoever."
• Compulsory attendance laws
  "Because the professional public school educators have shown themselves to be incompetent and utterly incapable of properly running educational institutions, the Party calls upon the state legislature to repeal all compulsory attendance laws and permit the parents to direct the education of their children from henceforth in our state."
• Public education
  "Because the public schools are consuming too much tax monies and producing too little results, the Party calls upon the legislature to abolish all state-level funding of pre-college educational institutions, abolish the department of education, and return control and funding mechanisms to the counties and communities where they belong."
• Traditional family
  "Because the traditional family structure is essential for the preservation of stable, productive and lawful society, the Party urges the state legislature to enact laws banning all forms of non-traditional marriage, and to abolish the scheme of no-fault divorce."
• Values of the founders
  "The America First Party of Mississippi embraces the cultural, political, and ethical values of the Founders of our state and our nation, acknowledges the Biblical basis of those values, and commits to fight for their preservation and restoration as the sole political and social hope for securing the future liberty and happiness of the people of Mississippi."
• Juvenile court system
  "It being necessary to restore the protections and rights of parents, while protecting the public from criminal conduct and punishing wrongdoers, the Party demands the State Legislature abolish the juvenile court system, thereby restoring the traditional rights of parents, the common law standards of proof and presumptions of innocence, and requiring juveniles to pay the full consequences for criminal conduct which has up until now been excused and treated as mere delinquency."

Rules and bylaws

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See also: Rules of the America First Party of Mississippi

The state party is governed by a set of rules and bylaws. Typically, these give structure to the different levels of organization—local, county, and state committees—and establish protocol for electing committee members. The bylaws also typically give details on the party's process for nominating and sending delegates to the national party convention during presidential elections. The following is a summary of the America First Party of Mississippi's rules. This summary focuses on the structure and governance of the party:

• The state executive committee is the authoritative body of the America First Party of Mississippi.
• Officers of the state executive committee include a chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer and an at-large committee member.
• The standing committees of the state executive committee include the membership committee, the finance committee and the candidate committee.

Convention

As of February 2016, the date of the 2016 convention of the America First Party of Mississippi, when the party selects its delegates to the America First Party National Convention, had yet to be determined.

Leadership

As of October 2023, the America First Party of Mississippi did not have an executive director.

The following individuals serve in leadership positions with the America First Party of Mississippi:

• Vacant, Chairman
• John Allan Goodman, Vice chair
• John Pittman Hey, Secretary/treasurer

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See also

• Ballot access requirements for political parties in Mississippi
• List of political parties in the United States