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Conservatism

Class JC Main/Index sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes, definition. Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to the way things were. Political science often credits the Irish politician Edmund Burke with many of the ideas now called conservative.— Excerpted from Conservatism on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Conservatism

General

• Democracy in America, 1840 by Alexis de Tocqueville
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• Conservatism: Its Principle, Policy, and Practice: a reply to Mr. Gladstones speech at Wigan, 23rd October, 1868 by Alexander Lindsay (External scan)
• “Radicalism, Conservatism, and the Transition of Institutions,” by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 4, December 1873.
• The Conservatism of the Future: being a letter addressed to Lord Randolph Churchill, M.P., 1884 by J. J. Coxhead (External scan)
• Present-day Conservatism and Liberalism Within Biblical Lines, 1911 by James Glentworth Butler (External scan)
• Conservatism, 1912 by Hugh Cecil (External scan)
  • Lord Hugh Cecil's "Conservatism", 1913 by Charlie Dunbar Broad

History

• Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 by Edmund Burke (British Member of Parliament, Whig) the founding philosophic opus of Conservatism

United Kingdom

• A History of Toryism, 1886 by Thomas Edward Kebbel (External scan)
• The Early History of the Tories, 1908 by Clement Boulton Roylance Kent (External scan)
• A History of the Tory Party, 1923 by Maurice Henry Woods (External scan)

United States

• History of the Republican Party, 1884 by Frank Abial Flower (External scan)
• The Republican Party; Its History, Principles, and Policies, 1888 by John Davis Long (External scan)
• The Republican Party (Curtis), 1904 by Francis Curtis
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• The Formation of the Republican Party as a National Political Organization, 1911 by Gordon Saul Philip Kleeberg (External scan)
• The Republican Party, 1920 by Willis Fletcher Johnson and Ray B. Smith (transcription project)

Speeches

Benjamin Disraeli

• Conservative Principles, 3 April 1872 by Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister)

John McCain

• Address to the Conservative Political Action Congress, February 7, 2008 by John McCain (United States Senator)
• Common Sense Conservatism, by John McCain (United States Senator)

Ron Paul

• Neo-CONNED, 10 July 2003 by Ron Paul (United States Congressman)

Political parties

British Conservative Party

• The Tamworth Manifesto, 1834 by Robert Peel (British Prime Minister) considered by historians to be the basic statement of the beliefs of the new Conservative Party. The foundation of "One Nation Toryism".
• Tory Democracy, 1911 by J. M. Kennedy (External scan)
• Tory Democracy, 1918 by Henry Cavendish Bentinck (External scan)

United States Republican Party

• 2007 Republican Debate, October 21, 2007 with Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo, Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, and Brit Hume

Criticism

• The Conservative, 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reference

• “Conservative Party” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.. (British party)