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February 18, 2010
Counter-Moonbattery: The Mount Vernon Statement
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 18, 2010 6:49 AM
Real hope and change from the Tea Party movement and the Conservative Right. The Mount Vernon Statement was signed yesterday at the home of dead white slave-owner George Washington by a coalition of social, economic, and national-security conservatives.
The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles. At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda.
- It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.
- It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.
- It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
- It supports America's national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.
- It informs conservatism's firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.
Go the web page and sign it.
