When Congress or the state legislature decides to take money from you through taxes, they are presuming that they know better how to spend that money than you do, or that what they want to spend your money on is more important than what you would spend it on. (more…)

A couple of misconceptions need to be cleared up regarding our founding documents. (more…)

If you've heard this commentary lately, you've heard about a booklet our organization has published titled Governing by Principle. Its purpose is to help you articulate the principles of governing that our nation's Founders believed. (more…)

It's election time in Mississippi, and while most politicians are telling you what they'll do in office, it's also important to find out what they will not do. Will they try to get the government to meet all your needs, or will confine government to its proper role? (more…)

It's easy in a political campaign to focus only on the issues of the moment. But to be a statesman - one who is worthy of being lauded by future generations - requires guarding the foundation of freedom we inherited from those before us. (more…)

Jackson, Mississippi – A Jackson-based think tank today called on candidates and public officials to “put principle above politics and partisanship.”

The Mississippi Center for Public Policy (MCPP) has published a booklet titled Governing by Principle: A Framework for Governing. The 45-page “primer” lays out ten principles the Center believes public officials—and the public in general—should be guided by in evaluating public policy. The primer is being sent to all candidates for legislative, regional, and statewide office and to several thousand supporters of the Center throughout the state. (more…)

You might have heard me talk about our organization's Governing by Principle campaign, which coincides with this year's election campaign for legislative and statewide offices. We have identified ten principles we believe are essential for setting and evaluating state-level public policy. (more…)

I've just returned from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was there that Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and more than fifty others pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor not simply to a new nation, but to the principles on which that nation would stand. (more…)

If you've ever thought about running for the Mississippi legislature, now is the time to decide. March 1 is the filing deadline to run in the August primary and the November general election. (more…)