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If I run for office, my platform would be focused on civil rights and the freedom of the individual, the citizen.
This means that as a citizen, we have freedoms and rights guaranteed by the constitution from birth. They are not privileges -- they are rights, that we should be guaranteed. To deny these rights for almost any reason is ridiculous.
For example, it should be assumed that every Citizen of the United States has a Right to own a firearm and keep it on his or her person. That for the government to deny that right ever, there must be a circumstance that is so severe that it would be dangerous for that person to have a gun (ie, serious criminals, mental patients in a hospital). This applies to all Rights under the constitution.
I'm a believer that almost every President in the last few decades has added more and more to our government, so much that we are under the burden of a huge government.
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. " - Thomas Jefferson