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Party Resource Documents

It starts with understanding the party platform, which descibes the moral and ethical positions of the party.

The Republican Party Platform is the document that unites the party with the moral ideas worth fighting for.

Delegate Documents

The following links are the documents needed to get on the ballot to be elected. A delegate can get on the ballot by filing on time with the county clerk, or by being a write-in on election day.

Affidavit of Identity PDF

Delegate Write In

"There can be no truer principle than this—that every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government." -Alexander Hamilton, Speech at Constitutional Convention, June 29, 1787

Robert's Rules For Delegate Meetings

The following cheatsheet and meeting toolkit will help you and your fellow delgates have productive meetings.

Robert's Rules of Order have the sole purpose of productivity for a group, and are most effective when the entire group knows them well.

If only a few know the rules, then those who do not will will be subservient to those who do.

Learn them well. They are the rules of the party.

RONR Cheatsheet

RONR Precedence Chart

"Justice is indiscriminately due to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank." -John Jay, in Georgia v. Brailsford, 1794

Michigan State Republican Party Documents

The following documents govern participation at the state level.

Michigan Republican Party Bylaws 2022

State Convention Rules - Leadership Election

State Convention Rules - Election of Delegates to National Convention

State Convention Rules - Nomination

State Convention Rules - Endorsement

"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." - James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States, 1790

National Constitution, State Law and State Constitution

The following are our state laws, state constitution, as well as the national constitution to guide our endeavors.

United States Constitution

Michigan State Constitution

Michigan Compiled Laws

Michigan Election Law MCL 168

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - Tenth Amendment, 1791