The Institute for Constitutional Education (ICE) was a conservative constitutionalist organization operating in Southern Utah from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. It was formerly part of the National Center for Constitutional Studies

National Center for Constitutional Studies

The National Center for Constitutional Studies is an ultraconservative, religious-themed constitutionalist organization, founded by Mormon political writer Cleon Skousen. It was formerly known as The Freemen Institute....

 and was later renamed "Families for America". The institute produced summer seminars at its facility in Duck Creek, Utah. The school George Wythe College

George Wythe College

George Wythe University is a non-profit classical liberal arts school in Cedar City, Utah which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts, education and political philosophy. GWU's curriculum is centered on the Great Books of the Western World published in 1952 by Britannica...

 was formed as a subsidiary of ICE in 1992, and control was later transferred to Coral Ridge Baptist University

Coral Ridge Baptist University

Coral Ridge Baptist University was a Bible college and seminary in Florida. It merged with Freedom University and Seminary in 2001.-History:...

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Notable directors include Cleon Skousen

Cleon Skousen

Willard Cleon Skousen was an American author, conservative American Constitutionalist and faith-based political theorist. He was also a prolific popularizer among Latter-day Saints of their theology...

 and William H. Doughty

William H. Doughty

William H. Doughty wanted to start a conservative lifestyle community, the Meadeau View Institute, in Southern Utah from 1986 to the early 1990s. He was also founder of the Institute for Constitutional Education and a founder of George Wythe College. He was a close friend of Cleon Skousen...

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Publications

• The Divine Science of Good Government
• The History of the United States from a Constitutional Perspective