"the foundational principles of" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to introduce and describe the basic ideas or beliefs that form the basis of something. Example: The foundational principles of democracy include equal representation, majority rule, and protection of individual rights.
These are the foundational principles of the Earth Statement.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, called the law "abhorrent to the foundational principles" of the country.
Through its mishandling of this issue, the IOC has departed from the foundational principles of the World Anti-Doping Code to which the governments of the world and all stakeholders in the Olympic Movement have committed.
While some alumnae have readily accepted the presence of trans students on their campuses, others, like Suzanne Corriell and Regis Ahern, graduates of Mount Holyoke, see it as a betrayal of the foundational principles of their alma mater.
In the case of terrorism, however, it can be argued that the foundational principles of a free and democratic society take precedence over a principle protecting a particular administration and political institution.
In offering thanks for the introduction, Cruz reminded the crowd that Beck was crucial in educating people about "the root threat of progressivism that is undermining the foundational principles of this country" and also "the threat of radical-Islamic terrorism".
It is about precedent, and the foundational principle of the guaranteed contract – something that the players have fought long and hard to keep sacrosanct, something they watched their counterparts in the NFLPA compromise all too easily in their last round of collective bargaining, and something that should be found in far more places in our society than our just our playing fields.
Although liberals may oppose the Supreme Court's decision, in truth the foundational principle of neutrality set forth in the ruling will make it harder for religious conservatives (including those on the court) to argue for the constitutionality of school prayer and other state-sponsored support of religion.
The most basic aim of moral philosophy, and so also of the Groundwork, is, in Kant's view, to "seek out" the foundational principle of a metaphysics of morals.
He argues that empathy, particularly the vicarious sharing of the sympathetic feelings of an observed agent toward the target of his or her actions, should be conceived of as the foundational principle of moral judgments.
The foundational principle of this is to select a set of variable combinations from a number of scenarios while it is still adequate to build the relationship among the independent variables and the response at a certain confidence level.
