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Defend America on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:44:17 PM
Nation’s Top Conservatives Will Sign Philosophical Declaration of War against Big Government
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
By
Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com)
- The nation's top conservative leaders will gather Wednesday at
Collingwood in Alexandria, Va.—a property that was once the site of
George Washington’s River Farm—to sign a document organizers are
calling the Mount Vernon Statement. It is designed to signal that a
united and resurgent conservative movement is declaring philosophical
war against the big government and moral relativism advanced by the
nation’s liberal cultural, academic and political establishments.
The statement emphatically says no to the type of "change" pushed by
political leaders who ignore the Constitution's limits on government
power.
“In recent decades, America’s principles have been undermined and
redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics,” says an
excerpt from the statement. “The self-evident truths of 1776 have been
supplanted by the notion that no such truths exist. The federal
government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is
increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.
“Some insist that America must change, cast off the old and put on the
new,” says the statement. “But where would this lead--forward or
backward, up or down? Isn’t this idea of change an empty promise or
even a dangerous deception?”
“The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American
ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles,”
it says.
The full document will be posted online at
www.themountvernonstatement.com after 3 p.m. Wednesday.
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