1776 Commission Takes Historic and Scholarly Step to Restore Understanding of the Greatness of the American Founding

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1776 Commission comprised of some of Americaโ€™s most distinguished scholars and historians including Larry Arnn, Victor David Hanson, and Charles Kesler, has released a report presenting a definitive chronicle of the American founding, a powerful description of the effect the principles of the Declaration of Independence have had on this Nationโ€™s history, and a dispositive rebuttal of reckless โ€œre-educationโ€ attempts that seek to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one.

The 1776 Report Introduction

In the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776. We willโ€”we mustโ€”always hold these truths.

The declared purpose of the Presidentโ€™s Advisory 1776 Commission is to โ€œenable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.โ€ This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is “accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.” And a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future.

The Commissionโ€™s first responsibility is to produce a report summarizing the principles of the American founding and how those principles have shaped our country. That can only be done by truthfully recounting the aspirations and actions of the men and women who sought to build America as a shining โ€œcity on a hillโ€โ€”an exemplary nation, one that protects the safety and promotes the happiness of its people, as an example to be admired and emulated by nations of the world that wish to steer their government toward greater liberty and justice. The record of our foundersโ€™ striving and the nation they built is our shared inheritance and remains a beacon, as Abraham Lincoln said, โ€œnot for one people or one time, but for all people for all time.โ€

โ€œNeither America nor any other nation has perfectly lived up to the universal truths of equality, liberty, justice, and government by consent,, But no nation before America ever dared state those truths as the formal basis for its politics, and none has strived harder, or done more, to achieve them.โ€

The Commissionโ€™s first responsibility is to produce a report summarizing the principles of the American founding and how those principles have shaped our country. That can only be done by truthfully recounting the aspirations and actions of the men and women who sought to build America as a shining โ€œcity on a hillโ€โ€”an exemplary nation, one that protects the safety and promotes the happiness of its people, as an example to be admired and emulated by nations of the world that wish to steer their government toward greater liberty and justice. The record of our foundersโ€™ striving and the nation they built is our shared inheritance and remains a beacon, as Abraham Lincoln said, โ€œnot for one people or one time, but for all people for all time.โ€

The facts of our nationโ€™s founding. Properly understood, these facts address the concerns and aspirations of Americans of all social classes, income levels, races and religions, regions and walks of life. As well, these facts provide necessaryโ€”and wiseโ€”cautions against unrealistic hopes and checks against pressing partisan claims or utopian agendas too hard or too far.

The principles of the American founding can be learned by studying the abundant documents contained in the record. Read fully and carefully, they show how the American people have ever pursued freedom and justice, which are the political conditions for living well. To learn this history is to become a better person, a better citizen, and a better partner in the American experiment of self-government.

Comprising actions by imperfect human beings, the American story has its share of missteps, errors, contradictions, and wrongs. These wrongs have always met resistance from the clear principles of the nation, and therefore our history is far more one of selfsacrifice, courage, and nobility. Americaโ€™s principles are named at the outset to be both universalโ€”applying to everyoneโ€”and eternal: existing for all time. The remarkable American story unfolds under and because of these great principles.

Of course, neither America nor any other nation has perfectly lived up to the universal truths of equality, liberty, justice, and government by consent. But no nation before America ever dared state those truths as the formal basis for its politics, and none has strived harder, or done more, to achieve them.

Lincoln aptly described the American governmentโ€™s fundamental principles as โ€œa standard maxim for free society,โ€ which should be โ€œfamiliar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated.โ€ But the very attempt to attain themโ€”every attempt to attain themโ€”would, Lincoln continued, constantly spread and deepen the influence of these principles and augment โ€œthe happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.โ€ The story of America is the story of this ennobling struggle.

The Presidentโ€™s Advisory 1776 Commission presents this first report with the intention of cultivating a better education among Americans in the principles and history of our nation and in the hope that a rediscovery of those principles and the forms of constitutional government will lead to a more perfect Union.

The 1776 Report PDF

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