Conservative Leaders to Unveil "Mount Vernon Statement"

Prominent conservative leaders announced this week the advent of a new manifesto defending conservative Constitutional values against left-wing political trends - and rooting those values in God, natural law, and human virtue.

Leaders expect to unveil the "Mount Vernon Statement" Wednesday at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. The statement, they say, is modelled off the Sharon Statement, a landmark document widely considered to have helped launch the modern conservative movement in the 1960s.

The leaders who drafted the statement include: Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, former Attorney General Edwin Meese, Media Research Center leader Brent Bozell, ConservativeHQ.com chairman Richard Viguerie, and American Conservative Union chairman David Keene, among others.

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