The neoconservatives generally accepted a modest welfare state—indeed, they were sometimes described as disenchanted welfare liberals—but they insisted that social welfare programs should help people help themselves, not make them permanent wards of the state. In this and other respects neoconservatives saw themselves as defenders of middle-class virtues such as thrift, hard work, and self-restraint, […]
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To summarize a large subject, living constitutionalist decisions have authorized nearly unlimited congressional power, significant executive power, and federal judicial supremacy over most of state life. Merriam is right that originalism focuses on the correct process for interpreting conservatism concept our Constitution. The fixation thesis tells us when and how constitutional meaning is set, and […]