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U.S. Constitution 


Principles


Preserving Life and  Liberty

"The future of liberty depends on reclaiming America's first principles. 'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization,' as Thomas Jefferson warned, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'   Widespread ignorance of American history is but the most recognized symptom of the troubling decline in popular knowledge of fundamental principles. We face an education system that upholds mediocrity in the name of relativism; an ever-expanding and centralized government, unmoored from constitutional limits; judges openly making laws and shaping society based on pop-philosophy rather than serious jurisprudence; and growing confusion over America's legitimate role in the world, made all the more apparent by the fundamental threat posed by radical Islamists. At the root of all these problems is a pervasive doubt about the core principles that define America and ought to inform our politics and policy."

       --from the Heritage Foundation website  http://heritage.org/