Supporting initiatives to encourage a better understanding of the Founding Principles upon which our government is based.
We are dedicated to helping you develop a deeper understanding of America‘s founding, the actual principles upon which our government is based, and how authority should be allocated within it.
Judeo-Christian doctrines played an important role in shaping our Founders thinking insofar as they embraced the ancients commitment to justice, truth, and virtue and added a coherent sense of morality.
In the 17th century, the English political philosopher John Locke integrated another ‘thread’ into the Western tradition: the idea of representative, limited government.
Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith described the miracle of free markets and the ‘invisible hand’ of the marketplace that combines men’s natural self-interests with their equally natural ‘fellow-feeling’ for others.
Edmund Burke articulated the need to avoid simplistic ideologies that ignore the ever changing complexities of life and to build civilization using a synthesis of ancient prescriptions in conjunction with reason, prudence, tradition, and experience.