Expansionist Party of the United States

The Expansionist Party of the United States is an American political party organization co-founded by L. Craig Schoonmaker and Stanley H. Hauser on 19 February 1977. Stanley H. Hauser died in July 1996, at age 67. L. Craig Schoonmaker continues as present chairman of the party.
Also known as the Expansionist Party or XPUS or just XP for short, the party was established in New York City, New York, but is now located in Newark, New Jersey, United States. The Expansionist Party of the United States (XPUS) is not officially registered in the United States and is considered a fringe party.
It is a radical centrist / pragmatist / moral non-dogmatic party, with no marked leftist or rightist agenda. The party also urges a larger role in society for ethnic and sexual minorities. The party's membership does not extend beyond a few hundred members.
Platform
*The Expansionist Party describes its platform as follows:
*In further detail:
XP is radical centrist, which means that it goes to the root ("radix" in Latin) of problems and disregards where an idea comes from, be it the Left or the Right.

*It advocates expansion of the United States' territory by including initially primarily anglophone countries of the world. Immediate areas of interest include Canada, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, and Panama.
*XP advocates decolonization of all American territories and colonies as a first priority, by (a) granting statehood, (b) merging small colonies into larger new or existing states, or (c) granting independence to all American colonies.
*It has proposed that the Caribbean regions of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands join the Union as a state. XP calls on the US Congress to unilaterally terminate Puerto Rico's neither/nor "Commonwealth" status (neither full equality with the 50 States as a State of the Union nor equality among the nations of the world as an independent country). This will give the Puerto Ricans a clear opportunity to make their final choice for full independence or joining the Union as a state.
*The party has proposed that Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are joined in the state of Hawaii, as the three colonies are not large enough to warrant admission as a State of the Union.
*It advocates the eventual merger of Mexico into the United States. The 31 states and Federal District of Mexico would become 10 states of the United States.
Further areas of interest in the more distant future would include Europe, Latin America, Africa, Oceania, South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), East Asia (Taiwan), and Russia, culminating in world union under the Constitution.
Activities
The bulk of the party's work is in educating the public by means of letters to the media, using the Internet, occasional radio and television appearances, speeches at colleges, etc., and in urging government officials to adopt XP policies.
In 2000, L. Craig Schoonmaker, the leader of the party, declared his candidacy for the US presidential elections. Because the party was not officially registered, Schoonmaker filed for his presidential run as an Independent.

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