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Chapter 13 Conservative Freedom
Antistatism
Moral Authority
“Government
has no other end
but the
preservation
of property”
Jefferson Locke Winthrop
Libertarian Conservatism:
o Individual Freedom
o Unregulated Capitalism
o Market Choice
“New” Conservatism
Absolute Values
Moral Behavior
Agree on Militarism
Disagree on Domestic
use of power
Uniting the moralists and the Libertarians
Common Enemies: USSR & Liberals
The Sharon Statement:
Free Market = Personal Freedom
Government limited to preserving
order, administering justice
& conducting foreign affairs
International Communism must
be destroyed
* (Parallels the
formation of the
SDS and the Port
Huron Statement)
*
1964 Republican
Convention
Republican Southern Strategy:
Unite against World Communism
Unite against Government intervention in
your right to self-determination
Unite against the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Unite against Judicial Activism
Nixon wins presidency in
1968 & 1972
In the 70s:
Stagflation:
•Wages stagnant
•Taxes and Prices
are inflated
Conservative solution:
lower taxes, cut social spending
1976: Carter beats Ford
OPEC oil embargo
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Johnson Space Center
Houston
New Constituents for the Conservative Cause:
Neo-Conservatives:
•1960s were a period of lower
moral standards
•Social programs do more harm than
good
Religious Right:
•Pornography is not free speech
•Abortion should not be legal
•Prayers should be said in school
Jerry Fallwell & Moral MajorityFamily Values Advocates:
•Anti-Gay
•Anti-premarital sex
•Anti-no fault divorce
•Anti-contraceptives
The Reagan Revolution: a new CoalitionSun-belt Suburbanites
Working class Catholics
Antistatists
Militarists
Libertarians
Moralist idealogues
And the results:
-restoration of Liberty of Contract +Soviet Union Collapses
-restoration of white ethnicity as
key to imagined American
-rich get richer, poor get poorer
Reagan’s Foreign Policy
I
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1989-1993 George
Herbert Walker Bush
Left with a 220 billion dollar deficit
“Read my Lips: ‘No New Taxes’ ”
Unemployment at 7+ %
Stock Market collapse
Raised Taxes
Republicans turned against him
Lots of angry people out there