ABOUT

MVI -- Yesterday and Today:
      The Mount Vernon Institute was established in 1992 by former University of Southern California professor Dr. Ron Stupak.  Over the next few years, Dean Stupak provided superb leadership of the Institute that was focused on executive leadership training, executive development, and psychology. During this period the Institute was part of Mount Vernon College in the City of Washington, DC.  Later, Mount Vernon College merged with and became part of George Washington University in what is now known as the GWU Mount Vernon Campus. At that time the MVI became an independent, not-for-profit, non-partisan organization no longer associated GWU.
       
      Today, the original intent of the MVI has expanded to include research, education and consulting services into contemporary issues involving the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, government accountability, international development, human rights, intelligence, terrorism and homeland security.  The institute is based on classical liberal principles, today called 'conservative principles'.  The Institute supports democracy and the importance of the original intent of the U.S. Constitution. The United States was established as a Christian nation with a biblical worldview and remains so today as many other religions are welcomed into the United States. This puts into practice the exercise of religious freedom and tolerance, an important principle on which the United States was founded.
       

      Noel Gibeson

      President

       

     

 

 

Global Perspectives:

* That Man has an inalienable and incontroveritable right to live in Freedom and Liberty; 

* That Man should remain unconstrained by government in his ability to purse Freedom and Liberty;

* That we develop culturally-based worldviews that we use to interpret the world; 

* That we believe our worldview is the correct one;

* That others believe that their worldview is the correct one; 

* That the reality is probably different than any one cultural worldview;

* That peace can be achieved only through communication and understanding;

* That to achieve a lasting peace we must take the necessary steps towards positive change that starts with communication and understanding;

* That a supreme being is important to most people; whether his name is Allah, God, or something else. Every belief in a deity is equally important and valid TO THAT PERSON;  

* That people have more in common than they have differences; 

* That peace can be achieved and sustained only through the freedom to make economic choices;

* And that the Rule of Law must prevail to maintain peace.