Matthew T. Parks

Keeping Our Republic: Principles for a Political Reformation Matthew T. Parks

There is something wrong with our politics that elections cannot solve. For nearly twenty years, the American people have tried to mind their own business at home while carrying on a seemingly futile search for the right combination of R's and D's in Washington. That search will not end until we address the roots of our political disorder: the progressive abandonment of our republican principles and heritage. Only a political reformation calling us back to the wisdom of our fathers and the founding documents of our nation can truly free us from the deeply-entrenched, bipartisan ruling class that is bankrupting and degrading us. Only a political reformation can "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity . . . ."

This short book hopes to contribute to this project by stating in precise terms what republican citizenship, statecraft, and politics are (and are not) in six concise chapters on equality, responsibility, honor, justice, lawfulness, and prudence, applied to the politics of our day. We believe that the revitalization of the American regime depends upon the revitalization of our common ability to tell the republican from the unrepublican as easily as we can distinguish a Democrat from a Republican-and to recognize that the former skill is vastly more important than the latter.