Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

November 3, 2009
The Rediscovery of America: Here's the Best Ground from Which to Repulse the Whole Progressive Project
By Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.

By any measure, the United States of America is a great nation. Thirteen colonies are now 50 states covering a vast continent and beyond. The ...

October 8, 2009
Examining the History and Legality of Executive Branch Czars
By Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
(Testimony )
The rise of government by bureaucrats--due to the delegation of power from Congress to administrative agencies, combined with the removal of those agencies from the ...

February 24, 2009
Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence
By Bradley C. S. Watson
(First Principles #0024)
Progressivism in its jurisprudential guise is rooted not in constitutional text, tradition, logic, or structure, but in the judge’s view of which necessities are most ...

November 20, 2007
The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government
By Ronald J. Pestritto, Ph.D.
(First Principles #16)
The ideas that gave rise to what is today called "the administrative state" are fundamentally at odds with those that gave rise to our Constitution. ...

July 18, 2007
The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics
By Thomas G. West and  William A. Schambra
(First Principles #12)
Although material circumstances and politicians' self-interest helped to make America what it is today, the most important cause was a change in the prevailing understanding ...

January 27, 2009
Limited Government, Unlimited Administration: Is it Possible to Restore Constitutionalism?
By Gary S. Lawson
(First Principles #23)
The Framers of our Constitution should be venerated in the general culture for what they did. Veneration of the personalities should be linked with veneration ...

December 10, 2008
How to Think About the Foundations of American Conservatism
By James W. Ceaser, Ph.D.
(First Principles #22)
The Culture-Creed distinction that some commentators apply to the conservative movement favors the Cultural category and attempts, with no basis in principle or fact, to ...

September 30, 2008
The Nature of Rights in American Politics: A Comparison of Three Revolutions
By Charles R. Kesler, Ph.D.
(First Principles #18)
Conservatives should not be wary of adherence to the natural rights creed of the American Founders, moderated as it was by the temperamental virtues of ...

June 28, 2007
Independence Forever: Why America Celebrates the Fourth of July
By Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
(First Principles #11)
The Fourth of July is a great opportunity to renew our dedication to the principles of liberty and equality enshrined in what Thomas Jefferson called ...