Sadly over the last several years, California's Republican Party has grown quiet on the issue of Life and asserting the principles of its own platform.
This has had a dramatic impact on its support and following in the state. But that need not be the case. Brian Johnston explains the founding of the Republican Party and its specific purpose of asserting the core values of the American founding - in particular, the assertion of the 'Right to Life' of slaves and the civic duty to free them through legal means, and to end the practice of slavery through the law.
Reaching back through the 'Whig' party of the 1830's (of which Lincoln was the Illinois leader), the Republican roots and principles have always asserted the firm commitment to a Constitutional foundation.
Many current Republicans do not fully understand their own party or its founding, and when they do so, they fail to stand for these essential elements of a just society. With this failure, they also tend to lose elections.
