Conservatism Government

Our country has been influenced by many things that led us to the government we have in place now. Those things mainly consist of the three ideologies found throughout political history. The three are conservatism, liberalism, and moderate. There have been multiple government documents written that helped get us to the most important one we have now. That document would have to be the United States Constitution. I will be focusing on the ideology of conservatism and how it influenced parts of the U.S. Constitution that we now know. Conservatism is the idea of following the “traditional” way of conducting our government. Liberalism supports the freedom and equality of every person and believes that government should play an important role in ensuring those qualities are given. Moderates are known to be in the middle …show more content…
documents, mainly the second one which is religion. In documents such as the Mayflower Compact, Magna Carta, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, you can find that God is stated in all three. God is said to be the ruler above all in a way and in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, people were even required to believe in him and study his scripture. We tend to stray from this idea towards the time of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. God is not mentioned in the U.S. constitution after many people started leaning more towards the idea of freedom of religion. Conservatives support the U.S. Constitution and strongly agree that we all have unalienable rights. The first of those rights are life and conservatives support this because they are pro-life. The second is liberty which I interpret as the freedom to choose. By this, I mean the ability to choose what you believe in such as religion. The third is the pursuit of happiness which I have heard referenced multiple times as property. This can tie back to the third conservative institution which is freedom where you can be successful or