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Robert P. George, J.D., D.Phil., McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, is one of America's foremost scholars in the fields of constitutional law, ethics, and political philosophy.

Dr. George has won numerous awards for his academic and civic work, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award.

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Renewing the Powerful Alliance of Social and Economic Conservatives

Written by Robert George
Thursday, 27 May 2010 09:27
Easy URL: http://tinyurl.com/socialeconomic Some people seem to think that the alliance of social and economic conservatives is, at best, a marriage of convenience. I couldn’t disagree more. My thesis is straightforward: Basic shared principles should lead serious social conservatives to be economic conservatives as well, and serious economic conservatives to be social conservatives, too. A sound conservatism will, as a matter of principle, honor limited government, restrained spending, honest money, and low taxes, while at the same time upholding the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions, the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and the protection of the innocence of children. Any healthy society, any decent society, will rest upon three pillars. Read more Hits: 801
Last Updated on Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:50

Law and Moral Purpose

Written by Robert P. George, Founder of the American Principles Project
Friday, 05 June 2009 10:07
This essay is adapted from the 2007 Erasmus Lecture Dr. George delivered for the Institute on Religion and Public Life. The obligations and purposes of law and government are to protect public health, safety, and morals, and to advance the general welfare—including, preeminently, protecting people’s fundamental rights and basic liberties. Read more Hits: 810
Last Updated on Friday, 31 July 2009 14:46

"Winning on Principle"

Liberal pundits and activists gleefully proclaim the demise of conservatism. The tide of history, they insist, has decisively turned against limited government, the market economy, the concept of national sovereignty, American exceptionalism, the sanctity of human life, and belief in marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife. We live, they say, in the Age of Obama, when America will be transformed to resemble the socialist states and radically secularist societies of Europe.

Unfortunately, some conservatives have bought into this liberal propaganda and either surrendered to despair or retreated into a defensive crouch. Traditional American principles, they fear, are political losers. We believers in American principles can only win, they suppose, by compromising our core convictions or soft-pedaling our commitment to them. This is nonsense. The American people have not given up on the founding principles of our nation. Our people are looking for candidates for public office who will boldly affirm these principles and commit themselves to honoring them.

The message of the 2006 and 2008 elections is not that the American people want to be governed by the ultraliberal and statist ideology of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid; rather it is that Americans will not tolerate Republicans and "conservatives" who refuse to honor in practice the principles they purport to affirm -- Republicans and "conservatives" who expand government, spend our tax dollars wantonly, do nothing about out-of-control judges who undermine democracy, and sit idly by as marriage is redefined and further weakened.

Across the country, Americans are looking for men and women of firm conviction and sound principles to lead our nation into the future. A conservatism that is true to the political and moral principles that made America great will win, and will do so for the best of all possible reasons: because it deserves to win.

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