We can make the founding principles relevant again by teaching youngsters about America’s great heritage of responsible liberty and voluntary associations that help build a healthy and strong culture.

Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law, its objective was clear: Parents must educate their children.

By laying claim to our nation’s founding principles, King showed Americans today how we can reinvigorate citizenship by living up to the promises at the heart of the American Founding. From RealClearWire

Tucker said comments like these show how Fauci's thinking is fundamentally opposed to America’s founding principles.

"Slavery, racial discrimination under the law, and racism in general are so inconsistent with the founding principles of the United States," the statement reads, pointing to the civil war and political campaigns that ended slavery and racially discriminatory

He proposes to engage professionals in the authentic, intellectual pursuit of America’s founding principles.

Pompeo also hit on the cultural issues that he is most concerned about and are seen by Republicans as crucial to winning primary voters, who care about the First Amendment and the founding principles enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

The 1776 Commission, appointed by President Donald Trump for two years, was tasked with producing a report on the nation's founding principles while providing guidance on how the federal government could promote those principles in public education.

Few students these days receive an organized, historically informed introduction to American ideas and institutions: the nation’s religious and political inheritance, founding principles, constitutional traditions, cultural crosscurrents, economic arrangements

“That founding principle of democracy has been severely eroded in Canada today,” he wrote.

On April 15, he gave a speech at the University of Texas in which he characterized progressivism as a threat to the nation and its founding principles.

What they mean is simple: American citizenship depends on adherence to a few principles laid out in the Founding documents. G.K.

Unlike many of King's contemporaries and those who sought to take up his mantle after his assassination, he did not denigrate the founding principles of the country, but rather he embraced them, insisting they should apply equally, to all people, regardless

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They argued that the nation had failed to live up to its founding principles—not that the principles themselves were flawed. In this sense, the Declaration is not an obstacle to progress. It is its foundation.

“Here, the circuit court properly found the 2025 Map satisfies the constitutional principles of compactness, and because of this, the subjective policy preferences of the legislature and Appellants related to population density are irrelevant,” he wrote

If we can’t say we have the courage of these young men in battle to defend our founding principles, then how do we preserve them and this republic?

And, you know, the 250th anniversary of America, we have all these founding principles, which really do help explain why we are different as a people. And we have not seen them applied perfectly in the last hundred years or so.

This inheritance runs from Magna Carta through the English Enlightenment to the American founding, where the principles of natural rights and liberty under law found their most enduring expression.

Badly needed today is restoration of the fight for America’s founding principles, that defined both of them, my friends.

These separate and independent academic units are sanctioned to teach our founding principles, American history, and Western civilization.

Trump’s MAGA message in 2025 is that the nation has destructively strayed from these principles. King’s message in 1963 was that the country failed and was failing to live up to those founding principles.

Rebirth of Civic Education Realizing that fewer of our young people were proud to be Americans, 20 years ago I started the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History.

It has become the symbol that represents the principles behind America’s founding—the principles of liberty and equality. This year marks America’s 250th birthday.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission to “safeguard and promote America’s founding principle of religious freedom,” according to the White House.

In fact, the U.S. constitutional system is founded on these natural law principles.

In addition to preventing terrorism, that order seeks to prevent entry by foreign nationals who “espouse hateful ideology” or “bear hostile attitudes toward [U.S.] citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.”

In my interviews with him, I asked Skousen where his wisdom came from, and he introduced me to the 28 founding principles of America. “What 28 founding principles? I’ve never heard of them!” I exclaimed.

This phoenix-like story has been long in preparation at the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History (JMC).

"Progressives like Wilson argued that America needed to leave behind the principles of the Founding and catch up with the more advanced and sophisticated people of Europe.