Tim Wolfe’s Guiding Principles
It is my obligation to tell you what I stand for and what I will do in Congress as your representative. The following are the principles I believe and follow and I expect you to call me on them when I get off track. And I will get off track because I am human. But whether I am in Washington DC or at home in Arlington Heights I will conduct myself accordingly.
- I believe in God as our creator and as the guide for our lives, including our daily conduct.
- Our Founding Fathers believed in a higher power called Natural Law. They believed that Natural Law, primarily passed down to man through the Jewish and Christian Bibles, were to be used as one of the guiding principles in developing our Constitution.
- Just as God had set down principles for man to follow in order to make our lives more fulfilling our Constitution was also designed to direct us towards a better life which is summarized in the preamble to the Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- The voters in this country hold ultimate responsibility for the representatives they select. Representatives who significantly waiver from their promises to their constituents must either be replaced or called to change their behavior in order to return to their original promises or state their new principles if original their original promises have changed.
- The Constitution of the United States is the unique and sole authority to be followed in legal matters of our country. The constitution of a foreign government, a religion, the United Nations or any other document or belief does not have authority that is equal to or greater than of our Constitution.
- Our economy is based upon the free market system characterized by supply and demand and the natural superiority of the “market” to best allocate goods and services. The federal government is a necessary tool to implement those things our Founding Fathers called for the federal government to provide. We as a society have placed too much reliance on the federal government and, as a result, we are heading towards more deficits and debts and the economic problems that are being seen in Europe today.
- I believe in American Exceptionalism. This country was created for a specific thought in mind – that is to be an exceptional country based upon our unique American political system.
- I promise to you, my constituents and my family, that I will do everything within my power to honor my responsibilities. I also promise to you that I will call upon fellow congressman, the president and the judiciary to act in accordance with basic standards and responsibilities that they also should be guided by.