U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling for the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to global dominance for centuries. Rubio is in Athens on Wednesday to discuss deepening economic, energy, and security cooperation with Greece and […]
We can make the foundingprinciples 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 foundingprinciples, King showed Americans today how we can reinvigorate citizenship by living up to the promises at the heart of the American Founding.
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"Slavery, racial discrimination under the law, and racism in general are so inconsistent with the foundingprinciples of the United States," the statement reads, pointing to the civil war and political campaigns that ended slavery and racially discriminatory
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 foundingprinciples 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 foundingprinciples while providing guidance on how the federal government could promote those principles in public education.
In 2024, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 1264, requiring instruction on domestic communist movements and their tactics, the atrocities committed under communist regimes, and how communism conflicts with America's foundingprinciples.
Ramaswamy said his plan is to lead with conservative values, guided by the nation’s foundingprinciples.
“We will always defend the greatness of this country without apologizing for who we are,” he said.
“That is who we are as Americans.
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The results of the November U.S. midterms suggest that a disturbing number of Americans no longer value the economic and social principles associated with the founding of their nation.
So, he called my show, cited the Education Code and talked about the value of the pledge as a way of teaching students to understand the principles upon which our “American exceptionalism” was founded.
On this battleground, it is necessary for one to have the intellectual wherewithal to defend the principles upon which democracy is founded. Not being able to do so is to risk its death.
Calabrese breaks down the foundingprinciple of cures, such as how homeopathic remedies are prepared through repeated dilution, and how homeopathy differs from herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
Henrietta laid down several foundingprinciples for the Fellowship. When the men were planning sanitoriums and considering how to raise the necessary funds, she put her foot down.
The MAHA movement was founded on the principles of giving Americans the tools they need to live longer, healthier lives. Preventing cancer should remain a top priority.
The founding persons and principles that distinguished this remarkable experiment in self-government are not seriously examined. How can visitors adequately understand America without being exposed to the ideas that created America?
Our Founding Fathers “laid a great foundation, we just keep on going and following the principles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights," he said.
The National Mall has hosted recent events such as the "Rededicate 250" prayer celebration earlier this year, which attracted thousands to the grounds for a meditation on the nation's foundingprinciples.
“This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its foundingprinciples and historical milestones in a negative light.”
Most Americans see communism in an unfavorable light, and a strong majority of Epoch readers say it’s incompatible with the United States’ foundingprinciples.
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 foundingprinciples.
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 FoundingPrinciples and History.