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Some ill-informed folks describe conservatives as “the NO party,” suggesting that we oppose all proposed legislation without any positive plans for addressing our nation’s significant public issues and dire economic concerns.

Not so, as we saw this week when conservative leaders gathered to proclaim the Mount Vernon Statement, a strong affirmation of modern Constitutional conservatism. Nor did they speak only for themselves; thousands of conservatives across the land promptly pledged their support.

In clear, bold language, the Mount Vernon Statement declares
Constitutional conservatism’s principles. “Through the Constitution,
the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government
based on the rule of law,” it begins. “They sought to secure
national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish
true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of
republican self-government.”

Not negative but principled, Constitutional conservatism “limits
government’s powers but ensures that government performs its proper
job effectively.”

On public issues, this reasoned, mindful agenda “honors the central
place of individual liberty in American politics and life.” On our
nation’s vital economic woes, Constitutional
conservatism “encourages free enterprise, the individual
entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.”

Thus we conservatives present a united and empowered team, and all
Americans can contemplate for themselves, individually, the simple
yet profound and compelling logic of Constitutional conservatism.