In April 2000, The Heritage Foundation brought together some of the nation's most prominent thinkers to consider our nation's first principles and how well they had fared over the course of the twentieth century. The result is The Enduring Principles of the American Founding, a collection of essays by such notable authorities as Edwin Feulner, Michael Novak, Walter Williams, Charles Kesler, Malcolm Wallop, Kim Holmes, and Robert Bork. While each responded in their own way and raised different concerns, they all agree that the renewal of republican self-government in this country requires the revival of the principles of the American founding.

The Enduring Principles of the American Founding

History

Matthew Spalding

Americas

UNKNO

The Founders' Almanac is an easy-to-use guide to the origins of American democracy — focusing on information that is especially valuable for our day. The calendar describes important events of the era. Biographical essays introduce the leading Founders — including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams — and discuss the major themes of their statesmanship. An extensive compilation of quotations reflects the wit and wisdom of the Founding generation, and an annotated bibliography suggests additional readings. Historical documents — the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and Washington's Farewell Address — and interpretative essays reacquaint the reader with immortal words and their contemporary meaning.

The Founders' Almanac: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders & Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding

This pocket guide was written to educate America's citizens on the documents that celebrate the highest achievements of America's founding and political tradition. This recently revised and expanded edition includes a new useful quotations section.

The Declaration of Independence/The Constitution of the United States

Politics & Social Sciences

David Forte

Politics & Government

The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are the greatest statements of human liberty ever written. They are the highest achievements of our political tradition, powerful beacons to all who strive for liberty. Taken together, these documents represent the liberating principles that America seeks to conserve for itself and proclaim to the world. 
 A general agreement on the core principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—equal rights grounded in a permanent human nature, constitutionalism and the rule of law, republican self government—long formed the underlying consensus of the American political tradition, but is today in doubt. 
 If we are to restore and preserve America s principles—the truths to which we are dedicated, the common ideas that constitute us as a people—we must first rediscover them, writes Matthew Spalding, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. And that demands that we rediscover the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Only then can we renew our commitment to them, to the heritage they have given us, and, more importantly, to the noble ideas and grand promises they contain.

A Citizen's Introduction to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

PH.D.

The Heritage Foundation

For far too long, the federal government has been on a binge of spending, taxing, and borrowing. Bloated and vastly overextended, its unsustainable promises now feed escalating debts that will cripple our economy, undermine our prosperity and lead to fiscal insolvency. In November, Americans face a critical decision as to which course the country will pursue a path of liberal progressivism, or a return to Constitutional values and self-governance. Changing America s Course explains this grave decision in clear terms, makes the conservative case a truly accessible one, and highlights the vital role our votes will play.

Changing America's Course

Legal Theory & Systems

Our Sacred Honor: An Annotated Guide To Understanding Our Founding Fathers

Successories

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