Constitutional Conservatism is the belief in free enterprise, limited government, and traditional conservative principles within constitutional boundaries. Essentially, constitutional conservatives believe that the ideas and intent of the framers, who formed the constitution, should be applied to government for all time, and seek to restore or maintain a constitutional size of government.
In the United States of America, constitutional conservatives believe in the size and scope of the government as invisioned and originally intended by the Founding Fathers. Typically they are pro-life, pro-religious freedom, pro-fair trade, pro-gun rights, and are almost universally strong supporters of private property rights, and support a limited federal government, less regulation of the economy, and support nationalism. Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix Nationalism is a form of identity that holds that (ethnically or culturally defined) nations are the fundamental units for human social life, and makes certain cultural and political claims based upon that belief; in particular, the claim that the nation is the...
Conservatism is any of a number of political philosophies supporting traditional values or an established social order.
Conservatism as a philosophy is much older than the left-right division, and it can include adherents from both.
The term 'conservatism' is also used in the history of technology to describe the reluctance - on grounds of cost, effort and disruption - to replace a functioning technology by another.
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