Matthew Spalding connects the principles of America’s founding with today’s thorniest issues as Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
Spalding, a constitutional scholar and authority on American political thought and religious liberty, also serves as project leader of Heritage’s First Principles initiative.
In his latest book, We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future (ISI Books, Nov. 2, 2009), Spalding details America’s core principles, shows how they have come under assault by modern progressive-liberalism and lays out a strategy to recover them.
First Principles, one of 10 transformational initiatives in Heritage’s Leadership for America campaign, seeks to provide a much-needed education for policymakers, the news media and ordinary citizens on the ideas of liberty and constitutional self-government. The overall objective is to reorient the nation’s politics and public policy to the enduring principles of the American founding.
Spalding is executive editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a line-by-line analysis of each clause of the U.S. Constitution….
which brought together the contributions of 109 legal authorities.
Spalding and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children. They live in Arlington, Va.