{"id":3827,"date":"2010-02-16T14:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:49:58","slug":"a-movement-of-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3827\/a-movement-of-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Movement of Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a presidency characterized by vapid rhetoric, it is inspiring to consider the ongoing discussion among movement conservatives to define themselves with statements of substance.\u00a0 Glenn Beck outlined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the912project.com\/the-912-2\/ \" target=\"_blank\">9 principles and 12 values<\/a> animating the Tea Party set.\u00a0 Newt Gingrich is calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.newsmax.com\/a\/feb10\/gingrich\/?promo_code=0 \" target=\"_blank\">a new Contract with America<\/a>.\u00a0 Members of the Religious Right are nearing a million signatures for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattandeclaration.org\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan Declaration<\/a>.\u00a0 RNC Chairman Michael Steele is promoting a <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Sections\/NEWS\/A_Politics\/Reagan_First_Read.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">10 point Republican checklist<\/a>.\u00a0 And on the eve of this week\u2019s CPAC Convention, several prominent conservative leaders will sign and publish the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=35638 \" target=\"_blank\">Mount Vernon Statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is good.\u00a0 Each document shows that the Right is driven by ideas about the human person, society, and government.\u00a0 All of these statements attempt to bring together an understanding of our nation\u2019s founding principles with an application of them to the current era.\u00a0 In its own way, each affirms the conservative belief that first principles need not be held hostage to recurring problems masquerading as new crises.\u00a0 That there is disagreement, even bitterness, is good because from it comes a more definite understanding of a coherent political philosophy.\u00a0 So, the next time you read about the \u201cconservative crack-up,\u201d read one of these documents and delight in the knowledge only one of the two major movements in this country has the courage \u2013 and the ability \u2013 to argue about first principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a presidency characterized by vapid rhetoric, it is inspiring to consider the ongoing discussion among movement conservatives to define themselves with statements of substance.\u00a0 Glenn Beck outlined the 9 principles and 12 values animating the Tea Party set.\u00a0 Newt Gingrich is calling for a new Contract with America.\u00a0 Members of the Religious Right are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[872,76,870,58,871,869,57,28],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cpac","tag-glenn-beck","tag-manhattan-declaration","tag-michael-steele","tag-mount-vernon-statement","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rnc","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}