Hello to everyone!
Have you read or heard about The Mount Vernon Statement yet? If so, have you signed it? Have you notified all your friends and acquaintances about it yet?
The MVS is a recommitment to our Founding Principles, also known as First Principles, those basic tenets upon which this great nation was established. It is a Statement of readiness to uphold and defend those Principles. It is a call to all Patriots, all loyal Americans, to stand up and be counted as ready to insist upon those Principles in our elected officials.
It is not, nor should it be, another example of great, swelling, words that only turn out to be abandoned in principle. At least, I hope it’s not.
We are inundated with that kind of “statements.” God forbid that The MVS follow that wearisome track. I have signed The MVS in sincerity, and I urge you to do the same!
The Mount Vernon Statement was so named because it was given birth on George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon, about one year ago. Here are a few lines of this historic document:
“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 nonors 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.
If we are to succeed in the critical political and policy battles ahead, we must be certain of our purpose. We must begin by retaking and resolutely defending the high ground of America’s founding principles.”
That sounds like the “old America,” the original America, does it not? If these words resonate in your being, friend, go and sign The MVS. But realize that you are making a commitment, and be ready to stand by it.
Hey, do you know what? If enough of us sign this pledge, intending to stand by it, maybe . . . just maybe, we’ll see our beloved Country rise from her death bed!
You can sign The Mount Vernon Statement by going to www.themountvernonstatement.com.
