Mandate for Leadership: Policy Management in a Conservative Administration

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The Heritage Foundation

Mandate for Leadership will help you hold politicians to their promises. This guide from The Heritage Foundation provides conservative solutions to issues ranging from free trade to Social Security reform to reducing federal spending. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan used Heritage’s first Mandate to develop many of his policies. In fact, he used it so much it became a "kind of handbook for the new administration," according to The Washington Post. 
Make Mandate for Leadership your handbook, too.

Mandate for Leadership: Principles to Limit Government, Expand Freedom, and Strengthen America

Foundation, The Heritage

This perfectly pocket-sized paper booklet holds two of the greatest statements of human liberty every written: The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. These two documents are the highest achievements of our political tradition and still define us as a people and a nation. This companion contains full texts of two of the most important documents to ever be written down.

Pocket Constitution

The first in a series of papers and monographs exploring the fundamental ideas of conservatism and the American political tradition.

A Brief History of the Modern American Conservative Movement

Lee Edwards

We are often told that religion is divisive and ought to be kept away from politics, and that religious liberty means a strict separation of church and state. But that view is out of tune with America s Founders, who advanced religious liberty in a way that would uphold religion and morality as indispensable supports of good habits, the firmest props of the duties of citizens, and the great pillars of human happiness. Far from wanting to expunge religion from public life, the Founders encouraged religion as a necessary and vital part of their new nation. 
 In this monograph, Gerard Bradley explains the Founders view of the relationship between religion and politics, and demonstrates how the Supreme Court radically deviated from this view in embarking on a project aimed at the secularization of American politics and society. 
 An understanding of the history of religious liberty is necessary if we are going to secure the blessings of liberty — including especially our religious freedom — for future generations.

Religious Liberty in the American Republic

Gerard V. Bradley

Books contain the ideas, make the arguments, and preserve the history necessary for the maintenance and perpetuation of liberty. Reading the Right Books is a practical list of thoughtful and accessible books — not the "classics" but solidly good books — recommended to provide a general framework around which the reader can build a firmer structure of political knowledge. Edited and annotated by Lee Edwards, the Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation, Reading the Right Books is a guide for intelligent, conservative-minded readers who want to prepare themselves for a public life of thought and action, and so seek to know more about politics, public policy and modern conservative thought, as well as literature, economics, religion, history, and statesmanship.

Reading the Right Books: A Guide for the Intelligent Conservative

Reference

America is in the throes of overcriminalization: We are making and enforcing far too many criminal laws that create traps for the innocent but unwary and threaten to make criminals out of those who are doing their best to be respectable, law-abiding citizens. Key developments in criminal law and practice over the past few decades have raised troubling questions about the fairness of our criminal justice system as it affects the average American. It is time to confront these questions, analyze them, and subject them to serious, vigorous debate. 
 One Nation Under Arrest highlights a major effort to return the criminal law to its traditional and proper role in society: to ensure public safety and protect the innocent. With first-hand stories from victims of overcriminalization, One Nation Under Arrest sheds light on an insidious problem that few recognize or care about but which is vital to the fundamental values of the Republic and our concept of justice. Overcriminalization should concern everyone in America, both as citizens and as potential accused. Much is at stake for our freedoms and the freedoms of future generations. Taking the steps necessary to ensure that American criminal law once again routinely exemplifies the right principles and purposes will require much work, but the alternative is to squander the great treasure that is the American criminal justice system.

One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty

Paul Rosenzwieg

Brian W. Walsh

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

Matthew Spalding

PH.D.

It's easy to be overwhelmed by the hundreds of books about Ronald Reagan, but this short monograph stands out from the rest by providing a clear, accessible, and engaging "Basic Introduction" to the accomplishments of the President who defined an age. 
 Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation, explains how Reagan restored the confidence of the American people in themselves and in the future, how he set in motion the forces that produced the longest peacetime economic expansion in the 20th century, and how he won the Cold War "without firing a shot," as Margaret Thatcher remarked. 
 Edwards emphasizes how Reagan was guided throughout his presidency by America's founding principles. Freedom was the unifying theme of Reagan's foreign and domestic agenda, and he set as his goals victory in the Cold War by defeating Communism abroad and rolling back big government at home. 
 A useful annotated bibliography of the essential books about Reagan's life and presidency is also included for those who want to read more.

Ronald Reagan: A Basic Introduction

Computers & Technology

Programming

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

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