# Constitution Party The Constitution Party — founded in 1991 as the **U.S. Taxpayers Party** by conservative activist Howard Phillips and renamed in 1999 — is a far-right minor party rooted in **paleoconservatism** and **[[Christian Nationalism]]**. Its platform holds that the United States is a Christian republic founded on biblical law, and it calls for a drastically limited federal government, the abolition of much of the administrative state and the income tax, withdrawal from international bodies, hardline immigration restriction, and an absolute anti-abortion position. It explicitly grounds its program in a particular originalist-theocratic reading of the Constitution and the [[Declaration of Independence]]. Never an electoral force at the national level, the Constitution Party matters to this KB as an **organizational home and bridge for the theocratic and paleoconservative far right** — a node connecting the broader [[Religious Right]], dominionist currents, and anti-federal-government activism. Its ideology prefigures themes that later moved from the fringe toward the mainstream of the [[MAGA]]-era [[Republican Party]]. ## See Also - [[Religious Right]] · [[Christian Nationalism]] — the movements it channels - [[Republican Party]] — the major party that absorbed many of its themes - [[Reform Party]] · [[Libertarian Party]] — other active third parties - [[Sixth Party System]]