The12Points.com is a statement of conservative principles by a young author.
About The12Points.com
A Statement of Conservative Principles: Helping conservatives to gain a firmer, deeper, more complete understanding of American conservatism. The Twelve Points were inspired by two primary documents: first, the Sharon Statement constructed and adopted by Young Americans for Freedom in 1960, and second, the Seven Points, a statement of conservative principles written and adopted by Grand Old Cause, a conservative activist student organization at Indiana University, in early 2003.
In 2007, Karl Born, the co-author of the Seven Points and founder and former organizer of Grand Old Cause, had become dissatisfied with what he saw as the weaknesses of the American conservative movement. Reacting to both the conservative movement's recent electoral struggles (including the outcome of America's November 2006 congressional elections, as a result of which the Republican Party lost control of the United States Congress) and to what he described as a lack of progress in "implementing conservative reform," Born recovered a copy of the Seven Points and began to consider whether the document could be useful to the conservative movement throughout the United States.
By March 2008, Born had concluded that the Seven Points would be inadequate for use on a national scale, deciding to write a new document based on the Seven Points. An early plan to use an internet wiki site to write the new document in concert with other conservative writers garnered little interest from others. As a result, Born proceeded on his own to write the document from his home in the northwest corner of Indianapolis, "a minute's walk to a cornfield and a minute's drive to an interstate."
The work on the Twelve Points, which Born called the "Points of Principle" until he had reached a final decision regarding the number of "points" that would be included, was intermittent throughout 2008. Though he had finished a first draft by the end of March, he soon thereafter began to review existing documents on conservative thought for additional conservative ideas to integrate into the draft. He occasionally returned to the document to make adjustments and additions, but the document had not changed much by the end of the year.
In early 2009, however, Born returned to work on the Twelve Points, adding ideas from his notes from the year before to the text of the Twelve Points. That spring, for the first time, he revealed the existence of the Twelve Points to other people, even they were not yet complete.
By June 2009, Born began to plan for the promotion of the Twelve Points, including creating a "blogspot" blog site using "Blogger," a service owned by Google, and uploaded a draft of the Twelve Points onto the site.
On July 2, 2009, Born completed the Twelve Points in Indianapolis, recognizing that it was the 233rd anniversary of the Second Continental Congress' approval of "Lee's Resolution," and therefore the first day of the 234th year of American Independence.
Born updated the Twelve Points blogspot site with the completed text, but he made few additional changes until October 2009, when Jim Banks, a friend, Whitley County (Indiana) Councilman, and Indiana State Senate candidate encouraged Born to move forward in promoting the Twelve Points. Banks also gave Born advice concerning the promotion of the Twelve Points, leading to Born's aquisition of his "The12Points.com" and "TheTwelvePoints.com" domain names, which were active by mid-October 2009.
