PRINCIPLES & GROWTH
IAP's 15 Principles of Liberty and Good Government
IAP has and keeps its15 Principles
15 Principles *short version"
We declare that the 15 Principles of Liberty (as well as both Proper and 'Good' Government) must not be compromised, but should be followed in order to maintain a 'Proper Government' of our Constitutional Republic in the United States of America ... AND
We are NOT a democracy (sorry Democrats !) Our Constitution states that it "guarantees" a "Republican Form of Government." (Article IV Section 12, called the "Guarantee Clause") So, does the Pledge of Allegiance ! "... and the Republic, for which it stands."
The 15 Principles include (with some emphasis added):
• free governments are based on moral law (1)
• proper government should protect God-given rights of all citizens
(life, liberty, and happiness - aka:property) (2, 4, 5, 6, 13)
• the Constitution is a solemn compact which all officers of government are under duty to obey by oath (3) [emphasis added]
• we are at war with the enemies of freedom and our God-given liberties (i.e., Socialism, Facism, Communism, etc., in whole or in part) (7, 8) [e.g, CRT, ESG, DEI, etc., all of which divide us]
• all citizens should bear their fair share of the cost of government (9) [drat!]
• we believe in honest 'Constitutional' money (gold and silver coinage) (10) [not paper IOUs]
• each state is sovereign (11) [and should not be beholding to the Central Government, in Washington D.C. either financially or otherwise]
• treaties or agreements with other countries (or world organizations) should not deprive any U.S. citizens of any constitutional rights (aka: God-given rights, therefore they can't deprive or limit them either!) (14)
• it is a violation of the Constitution to weaken our military to the point required to protect the States and our borders from invasion (15)
[For another longer version with more details and a 'Full Text' form of the 15 Principles please use the Find Out More button ... below]
Watch the Growth of IAP Utah Continue!
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PARTY of UTAH GROWTH (so far!)
In 2001 the IAP grew from one state party (Utah) to three organized state parties (Minnesota, Tennessee and Utah), and twelve prospective state parties. Area Coordinators were assigned to each of four regions of the country.
The IAP adopted its first National Platform in August, 2002, and ended the year with three organized and 18 prospective state parties.
In 2003 the Party changed the structure of its officer positions from the traditional Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, and elected a Chair and 4 Vice-Chairs.
By 2004 the party involvement dwindled, and it was unable to maintain ballot status in any state; however, the party was later revitalized and soon gained ballot access in Utah and New Mexico. In the 2014 election cycle, the IAP supported a total of 31 candidates in local, state, and federal campaigns across nine states.
Today, the IAP of Utah continues to grow right here. (Nationally, with members in most 50 states and the District of Columbia and soon members in Central and South America, too.) At the end of 2022 there were 79,387 voters, and by the end of 2023, the IAP of Utah was a party with 81,167 registered voters in the State of Utah (additional growth by 18 Nov 2024 shows the IAP is now up to 91,370) keeping it the third largest party in the state - more than all the other third parties (the Libertarians, Constitution, No Label, United Utah, Green, and Utah Forward) combined!
Year End numbers
[the following 'End of Year' numbers and monthly figures below are from the Utah Lt. Gov. list of registered voters by party :(https://voteinfo.utah.gov/current-voter-registration-statistics/)].
See how we've grown compared to the other parties !
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Year IAP Libertarian Constitution United Utah No Labels Utah Forward Green
2014 6754 8556 4243 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2015 10,601 9206 4432 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2016 23,071 13,317 5591 (began 7/17) -- -- -- -- -- --
2017 26,354 13,750 5651 211 -- -- -- -- -- --
2018 40,598 17,384 6282 1493 -- -- -- -- -- --
2019 50,369 19,042 6687 1849 -- -- -- -- -- --
2020 64,219 21,698 6897 2305 -- -- -- -- -- --
2021 68,116 22,832 7,328 2,589 -- -- -- -- -- --
2022 75,387 24,676 7845 2775 (started 10/23) -- -- -- --
2023 81,167 25,598 8184 2971 976* (both UF & G started 1/24)
2024 91,370* 25,655* 8401* 3169* 9,516* 137* 600*
(GOP* = 1,034,401 Dem* = 293,513 Unaff* = 604,443
Total Utah Reg. Voters = 2,071,205* [*-year to date]
The IAP's average annual growth is just over 6k/year (where we started a decade ago, in 2014)... an amazing annual average. We have already grown by 10k+ in 2024, which is over 150% of our average, to about 92k voters by the End Of the Year (EOY)!! The IAP is on par to break 100k next year – about halfway (more or less) to our goal to replace Utah Dems as the #2 Party in the state.
This conservative trajectory shows the IAP at an estimated 115k by 2026, 125k by 2027, 130k by 2028, and over 135k before 2030.
While the trajectories of the other major third parties show:
- Libertarians to be over 30k by 2027, 35k by 2029.
- Constitution has a fairly flat growth, not breaking 10k until 2027, getting close to 15k about 2030.
- United Utah breaking 5k about 2028 or 2029.
Monthly the IAP is growing by about 600-800 per month, on average, as shown below.
Breaking it down into monthly or even bi-weekly growth we see:
Monthly numbers in 2023 Monthly growth in 2024
30 Jan - IAP = 75,128 2 Jan - IAP = 81,873 3 Jun-IAP = 85,674
13 Feb - IAP = 75,475 29 Jan - IAP = 82,583 10 Jun-IAP = 85,892
8 Mar - IAP = 75,808 5 Feb - IAP = 82,747 24 Jun-IAP = 86,118
15 Apr - IAP = 76,664 12 Feb - IAP = 82,896 1 Jul - IAP = 86,126
15 May - IAP = 77,199 26 Feb - IAP= 83,218 8 Jul - IAP = 86,144
20 Jun - IAP = 77,814 4 Mar - IAP= 83,256 15 Jul - IAP = 86,419
31 Jul - IAP = 78,657 11 Mar- IAP = 83,319 29 Jul - IAP= 87,045
7 Aug - IAP = 79,203 18 Mar - IAP = 83,419 26 Aug-IAP = 87,160
18 Sep - IAP = 79,528 25 Mar -IAP = 83,684 9 Sep-IAP = 87,598
23 Oct - IAP = 80,344 1 Apr -IAP = 83,897 16 Sep-IAP = 87,925
13 Nov - IAP = 80,764 8 Apr- IAP = 84,294 23 Sep-IAP = 88,311
18 Dec - IAP = 81,167 15 Apr - IAP= 84,574 7 Oct- IAP = 89,024
. 22 Apr - IAP= 84,737 21 Oct- IAP = 89,940
29 Apr - IAP= 84,837 28 Oct- IAP = 90,877
6 May- IAP= 85,022 18 Nov- IAP = 91,370
13 May- IAP= 85,243 Nov- IAP =
20 May-IAP = 85,353 Dec - IAP=
28 May-IAP= 85,530
from 2014 (when the state began keeping these statistics) to 2024 and beyond, the amazing and continuing growth is about 6k average annually, over 650 per monthly average, sometimes as many as several hundred in one week!!
HERE WE GO ... WATCH US CONTINUE TO GROW ... RIGHT HERE LOCALLY! Not to mention NATIONALLY or in the rest of North America, but in ALL the AMERICAS; Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean Isles of the AMERICAN HEMISPHERE.
