As a perfect example of these new opportunities offered by APP, I will be live-blogging a debate between Doug Kmiec and Robbie George at the National Press Club tomorrow. I will post details about that event next.
American Principles Project
From About the Project:
The United States of America does not need new principles. It needs renewed fidelity to the principles set forth in our Delcaration of Independence and the Constitution. These are timeless principles: truths that we hold, in Jefferson's immortal words, to be, "self-evident." They are, moreover, universal principles, not the historically contingent beliefs or customs of a particular sect or clan or tribe. They are rooted in the nature of man as a being who, by virtue of his God-given dignity and rationality, owns the right to participate in the great project of self-government as a free and equal citizen. Whatever others may say, we at the American Principles Project and all who join with us reaffirm the truth that each and every member of the human family is, "created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."How does this differ from a Straussian or a "proposition nation" account of the American system? It is one thing to accept that the national system is what we have; it's another to endorse it or to claim that it is in accod with the Constitution. Do national solutions have a chance of succeeding? Can they be passed by Congress and implemented by the President. I find it unlikely. Resistance by the states seems to be the better option.
Dr. Robert George on Our Struggle for the Soul of our Nation.
Dr. Robert George on Law and Moral Purpose.
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