Last updated on:
8/22/2007 |
Author: ProCon.org
Thomas G. West, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Director and Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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“The reference to divinity in the revised pledge of allegiance, for example, may merely recognize the historical fact that our nation was believed to have been founded ‘under God.'”
Claremont Institute website, Dec. 1, 1996
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director and Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute
- Professor, Politics, University of Dallas, 1974-present
- Bagehot Council’s Paolucci Book Award, 2000
- Salvatori Visiting Scholar, Claremont McKenna College, 1990-1992
- Bradley Resident Scholar, Heritage Foundation, 1988-1989
- Education:
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- PhD, Claremont Graduate University, 1974
- BA, Cornell, 1967
- Other:
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- None found