The Mount Vernon Statement is a statement affirming the United States Constitution, particularly in response to the rise of progressivism in the United States. It was inspired by the Sharon Statement.
It was signed on February 17, 2010, at a public library (Collingwood Library and Museum) in Fairfax County, Virginia. Despite its name, it was not signed at Mount Vernon, George Washington's plantation. Contrary to most news reports, this library is not actually in Alexandria, Virginia. (This unincorporated region of Fairfax County simply has "Alexandria" in its mailing address.)
The statement reads, in part:
We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding. Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. They sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.