We believe that duty and honor are inseparable components of public service. Loyalty to duty and its protocol is the fulcrum by which public service is to be weighed, balanced, and adjudged. Official authority must be severely circumscribed by both statutes and by this valued tradition immune to insult or injury. To be certain, there are times when duty is not well defined and difficult to distinguish from loyalty to seniors, subordinates, and entities seeking inducement. But when one's sense of honor and loyalty deviate from any course other than duty and its protocol, deference will more often weaken than strengthen one's integrity.

Therefore, your first loyalty is to duty; getting the job done in a way that glorifies the Constitution, not merely abiding by it, or worse, using it as a defense for poor judgment. The second is to the constituents at whose discretion you serve. The third is to honor your office and the flag flying above it. In accepting your office, you are obliged to answer the call of duty with every task, no matter how great or small, without burden from a conflict of interest. Beyond this, and never in contradiction, bend every effort to honor your country in the capacity granted to you as a public servant.

The motivation for assuming a public office must never rest in the promise of wealth, and just as one understands certain rights and privileges must wait until completion of obligated military service, so too must public servants acknowledge and accept that particular rights are deferred until appointed service is complete. It is conflict produced by these two concerns, affluent special interest groups and the aspiration for personal gain through public service, which must now find correction with the power of the electorate. And so, we the people now exercise the power of true democracy in the tradition in which it was intended. When the United States Congress, the United States Supreme Court, and even the president cannot easily find themselves distance from external influence, then we the people do grant it.