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    American conservatism's core commitments have been determ... — Carmelics
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    American conservatism's core commitments have been determined by the United States' essentially liberal political culture.

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    • 1.The United States was founded as a constitutional republic.
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    • 2.Its founding as a constitutional republic produced an essentially liberal political culture.
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    • 3.A nation's foundational political culture shapes the core commitments of its conservatism.
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    • 1.American conservatism has historically drawn on pre-liberal traditions including Calvinist theology, aristocratic agrarianism, and natural law theory.
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    • 2.Thinkers like John C. Calhoun, Richard Weaver, and Russell Kirk explicitly rejected liberal individualism as foundational to conservative thought.
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    • 3.If a movement's intellectual architects reject liberalism as foundational, its core commitments cannot be fully determined by liberal political culture.
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    • 1.Huntington's 1957 analysis identifies conservatism as a positional ideology defending existing institutions, making its content contingent on what is being defended, not on liberal foundations.
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    • 2.American conservatism has defended institutions—slaveholder federalism, established Protestant Christianity, hierarchical social order—that are substantively illiberal in content.
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    • 3.A political culture shaped by liberalism does not preclude conservatism from acquiring core commitments that are structurally or substantively anti-liberal.
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    Conservatism does not rest on a defence of a landed nobility, monarchy and established church, so even though the United States lacks these, an American conservatism is possible. However, it is argued that owing to its foundation as a constitutional republic, its essentially liberal political culture has determined American conservatism’s core commitments (Hartz 1955). Thus Gray argues that right-wing thought in the U.S.A. is almost exclusively neo-conservative and libertarian, with a
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