Mallory Factor - Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution--As Told by the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen

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Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

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CONTENTS

by Edwin J. Feulner Jr., Heritage Foundation Founder

by General John Rosa, President of The Citadel

by Mallory Factor

by Publisher Alfred S. Regnery

by Political Historian David A. Norcross

by Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich

The Fragility of Ordered Liberty: Tocqueville and Conservative
Conceptions of Liberty, Equality, and Community

by Political Commentator Michael Barone

New Deal Progressivism, the Jeffersonian Revival,
and the Agrarian Tradition

by American Historian Burton W. Folsom Jr.

by Economist Yaron Brook

William F. Buckley Jr., Fusionism, and the Three-Legged Stool of
Conservatism

by Political Journalist David A. Keene

by Political Activist Phyllis Schlafly

by Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese

The Cold War, Anti-Communism,
and Neoconservatism

by Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith

Everything You Wanted to Know About
Economic Policy

by Cato Institute Economist Daniel J. Mitchell

The Bush Doctrine, Compassionate Conservatism,
and the War on Terror

by Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

by Political Strategist Ralph E. Reed Jr.

by Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey

by Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul

by Haley Barbour, Former Governor of Mississippi

Edwin J. Feulner

Conservatives believe that America is an exceptional nation because, unlike any other nation, it is founded on an ideathe idea that all Men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, a government is given just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.

In these few words in our Declaration of Independence, we find the first principles that have guided America for nearly two and a half centuriesliberty and equality, individual rights and limited government. The idea that political power ultimately rests with the people and not with any monarch or parliament was truly revolutionary.

The Constitution builds on the idea that the people are sovereign by beginning with the words We the Peopleand in bold letters. The people, the preamble states, have established a constitution to do six things: form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. These are monumental goals never attained before or even conceived in recorded history.

And yet the authors of the Constitution, meeting in hot humid Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, believed they could be achieved. They had faith in the ideas that had inspired a tiny country of four million scattered along the coastline of a new world to challenge and defeat the most powerful nation in the world. And they had faith in the people who now sought a new and exceptional kind of political governance.