William H. Doughty started a conservative lifestyle community, the Meadeau View Institute, and Liberty Village in Southern Utah from 1986 to the early 1990s. He was also founder of the Institute for Constitutional Education (ICE) (a splinter group of the National Center for Constitutional Studies) and a founder of George Wythe College. He was a close friend of W. Cleon Skousen. He is also mentor to Shanon Brooks and Oliver DeMille, past presidents of George Wythe. He wrote the book Track II to the 21st Century and at one time issued a monthly periodical entitled "Vision".