1. Our Core Aims and Values are:
a) We are pro-life in that we are not just anti-abortion, anti-human cloning and anti-euthanasia, but that we will make adequate care provision for the weakest and most vulnerable in society;
b) We will defend the rights of the family through such things as only recognising heterosexual unions as proper marriages, tighter divorce legislation, better tax relief for married couples, child benefit (especially if the parents opt to have a large family) and the right of parents to educate their children, for example;
c) We will act to end modern forms of slavery such as prostitution, unjust wages and working conditions, substance abuse and the industry surrounding it;
d) We will respect the right of freedom of religion;
e) We will promote an economy which is to everyone’s benefit;
f) We will promote a peace among peoples and nations which is not merely the absence of war;
g) We will maintain a just and impartial judiciary and insist upon an ethical media.
2. These Core Aims and Values impose on Members the duty to resist by the democratic process the introduction of legislation which allows any violation of these Core Aims and Values and where such legislation is already in existence the duty to seek its repeal or replacement with legislation which reflects the Core Aims and Values.
3. a) Any violation of the Core Aims and Values by a Member, whether by word or deed, may result in the expulsion of the Member from the Organisation after a decision of the National Executive Committee.
b) A two-thirds majority of the National Executive Committee will require any Member to resign if he or she has infringed the Organisation’s Core Aims and Values and/or brought the Organisation into disrepute.
4. The National Executive Committee will be the Organisation’s supreme authority.
5. Entrenched Clauses of this Constitution may only be amended if the National Executive Committee is unanimous in its agreement with the amendment and four-fifths of Members present and voting at a General Meeting of the Organisation also agree.
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THIS CONSTITUTION was approved on the Twenty-ninth day of September Two thousand and six.
The First Amendment was approved on the First day of February Two thousand and seven.
The Second Amendment was approved on the First day of February Two thousand and eight.
The Third Amendment was approved on the Thirteenth day of March Two thousand and ten.
Chairman James Caffery
General Secretary and Treasurer Paul Kennedy
