The 1776 Report is the official report of The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. Submitted to the President and released as a public document on January 18, 2021, the report explains the core principles of the American founding and how they have shaped American history, considers the leading challenges to these principles at home and abroad, and calls on all Americans to “restore our national unity by rekindling a brave and honest love for our country and by raising new generations of citizens who not only know the self-evident truths of our founding, but act worthy of them.” This edition features the original text with the addition of notes and commentary by Chair Larry P. Arnn, Vice Chair Carol Swain, and Executive Director Matthew Spalding.
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The 1776 Report
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Trade Hardcover / 125 pages
ISBN: 9781641772259
Available: 5/11/2021
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About the Authors
Larry P. Arnn is the president of Hillsdale College, where he is also a professor of politics and history.
Matthew Spalding is the Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government and the Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus.
Carol Swain is a former professor of political science at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, and a former professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School.
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