Do You Hold These Truths?

Julia Shaw / September 28, 2010

For more than 200 hundred years, America’s first principles—liberty and equality, natural rights the consent of the governed, private property, religious freedom, the rule of law and constitutionalism—have defined us as a nation and united us as a people.

America’s founding principles are not just ideas fit for the 18^th century. Just watch our new film, We Still Hold These Truths, featuring citizens who think about the founding principles in their daily lives. Through these one-on-one interviews with parents, entrepreneurs, young professionals, and a very wise Texan, we understand how the free market system creates prosperity, how liberty secures our religious freedom, how the rule of law protects our rights, and how constitutionalism ensures self-government. These men and women live in large cities and small towns, they own businesses and raise families. Some are life-long citizens; and others, new Americans. (more…)