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    It is not the case that An American conservatism is possible despite the United States lacking a landed nobility, monarchy, and established church.

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    • 1.Burkean conservatism is essentially a defense of historically evolved, particular institutions that vary by nation.
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    • 2.Without inherited aristocratic, monarchical, and ecclesiastical institutions, American 'conservatism' lacks the organic traditions Burke identified as the proper object of conservative allegiance.
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    • 3.Therefore, what passes for American conservatism is better described as classical liberalism, defending abstract rights rather than inherited particularity.
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    • 1.Samuel Huntington argued conservatism is a positional ideology—it defends whatever institutional order is currently threatened, regardless of content.
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    • 2.If American conservatism merely defends liberal-democratic institutions, it reduces to a variant of liberalism, collapsing the conceptual distinction between the two traditions.
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    • 1.Conservatism does not rest on a defence of a landed nobility, monarchy, and established church.
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    • 2.The United States lacks a landed nobility, monarchy, and established church.
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