Title: Renouncing Democratic Socialism

Summary: Renouncing democratic socialism in favor of the true American values of individual liberty and democracy, etc.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, the rule of law ensures that citizens can participate in regulation through the election of their representatives, thereby protecting their real and personal property against unreasonable taxation, and WHEREAS, individual liberty includes the freedom of a citizen to engage in, and benefit from, the labor of his or her own hands, and WHEREAS, in the words of statesman, lawyer, diplomat, philosopher, and Founding Father James Madison, who served as our nation s fourth president,  As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights,  and WHEREAS, all of the citizens of this great nation benefit from limiting the imposition of regulation on industry and supporting capitalism as a means of increasing the strength of our economy, and WHEREAS, in 2018, the economy of the United States was the largest in the world at $20.49 trillion, with its closest competitors far behind, with China at $13.41 trillion; Japan at $4.97 trillion; and Germany at $4 trillion, and WHEREAS, in contrast to the true American values of individual liberty and democracy, democratic socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates for the ownership or regulation of production, distribution, and exchange by the community, as a whole, and WHEREAS, in many nations that have looked to socialism to improve the lives of their citizens, the result has been economic and social chaos, resulting in an extraordinarily low standard of living for the vast majority and the lack of individual freedoms for all, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida: That democratic socialism is renounced in favor of the true American values of individual liberty and democracy.