Claremont Institute Offers Fellowships for Conservative Students, Young Professionals
“to teach the principles of the American Founding to the future thinkers and statesmen of America”
We need more of this. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to what is offered on the other side.
Campus Reform reports:
Claremont Institute offers multiple conservative fellowships for college students and grads
The Claremont Institute, a prominent California-based conservative think tank, hosts a number of fellowships throughout the year geared toward conservative students and young professionals.
Founded in 1979, the organization aims “to teach the principles of the American Founding to the future thinkers and statesmen of America.”
“Those principles include the foundational doctrines of natural rights and natural law found in the Declaration of Independence; the ingenious political science of the Constitution; and the popular constitutionalism or reverence necessary for the maintenance of free government,” the mission statement continues.
The institute accomplishes this in part through a number of fellowships it offers each year.
The Publius Fellowship, for instance, “brings together a selective group of promising young conservatives to study the distinctive moral and political principles of the American constitutional order.”
Participants discuss a range of topics with scholars during daily training sessions, from “The Political Science of the Federalist” to “Grand Strategy and Modern Foreign Policy.”
Another program, the John Marshall Fellowship, offers a similar experience to prospective clerks and legal scholars, giving fellows the opportunity to “learn about and discuss political philosophy, American government, and American history with a specific focus on the origins and development of American constitutional jurisprudence.”
The fellowship is managed by the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (CCJ), which aims “to restore the constitutional design envisioned by our nation’s founders.”
“Think of the Center as a corrective to the legal establishment’s contempt for American principles of natural right and limited government—the principles of the Framers of the Constitution,” CCJ’s website states.
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