19th Century American Conservatism

As popularly known, conservatism is a large system of politically based beliefs in the United States. It is synonymous with the respect for general American traditions, economic liberalism, and defense for the western culture among others. Liberty is core value that particularly strengthens the free market. While it has been argued by historians that the conservative tradition significantly contributed in the American politics as well culture, it has also been argued that the organized conservative movement plays a critical role only in the field of politics. The recent conservative movement solely revolves around the Republican Party while the democrats also significantly participated in the history of the same movement. American conservatism

While conservatism does not have a monolithic party line, their task is to successfully overcome the 19th century bifurcation. This would effectively be done in a fruitful dialogue so as not to perpetuate it by way of failing to understand the complexity and the breadth of the American heritage (Meyer, 1996). The greatest service that contemporary conservatism has offered to the US is the refocused attention on the mere fact thought to be understandable by the founders. According to Will (1964), “Society is a crucible of character formation.” People are termed as political and social beings that are completed through associations. While the state can damage the association, a large or big government would do an even bigger damage. Conservatism drives the current political debates considering that it has sensed and is striving to act on the reality that people are biological facts. However, the citizens that are entitled to self-government tend to be social artifacts. Conservatives hardly subscribe but appear hostile to the possibility of the human nature having any history (Will, 1964). The traditional conservatives have had the tendency of insisting that the crystallization of a conservative outlook in the modern society requires only that we proceed with the principles of the individuals who considered themselves conservatives in 19th century oversimplifies while at the same time confuses the problem (Meyer, 1996