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The day before last week end's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, a group of prominent conservatives gathered a few miles away at the Virginia estate of our first president. Their Mount Vernon Statement swears fealty to a "constitutional conservatism" that "applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal" and "honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life." If only they meant it. Constitutional conservatism certainly sounds better than "compassionate conservatism," which turned out to be code for big-government conservatism. And it is easy to hope that the thread...

The conservative movement in America has been seeing its ranks grow steadily over the last year. The Tea Party Patriots and the growing support for Sarah Palin and her inspired leadership have energized people who are fed up with the direction our country has been taking. , But the momentous signing of “The Mount Vernon Statement” may herald the beginning of a Second Revolution. Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, over 80 leaders representing tens of millions of conservative activists nationwide, signed The Mount Vernon Statement subtitled Constitutional Conservatism: A Statement for the 21st Century which is a declaration of leadership for...