As editor, Mackenzie was perhaps a little too vocal, leading the paper to a suit of law for libel against the local conservative candidate.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.

Stewart and Harlan were conservative Republicans, while Brennan was a Democrat who became a leading voice for liberalism.

After 1933 he became a leading conservative spokesman in opposition to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal.

The leading proponents of intelligent design are associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank, and believe the designer to be the Christian deity.

On 17 July 1936, the Spanish Army launched a coup d ' état, leading to a prolonged armed conflict between Spanish Republicans ( the leftist national government ) and the Nationalists ( conservative, anti-communist rebels who included most officers of the Spanish Army ).

This time, Roosevelt united all wings of the party, avoided divisive cultural issues such as religion and the KKK, and brought in a leading southern conservative as his running mate, House Speaker John Nance Garner.

To achieve this, he began enacting several reforms to modernize the al-Azhar Mosque, which serves as the de facto leading authority in Sunni Islam, and ensure its prominence over the Muslim Brotherhood and the more conservative Wahhabism promoted by Saudi Arabia.

* 183 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC, who will have a prominent part in the murder of Tiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters ( d. 132 BC )

The fears, however, of the mostly conservative planter elite and other leading white citizens were partly assuaged by the actions of President Johnson, who ensured that a wholesale land redistribution from the planters to the freedman did not occur.

She even asked Joseph Stalin directly why he had slaughtered so many Russians, but many of her criticisms were translated into innocuous statements instead, leading many of her conservative supporters to fear she had " gone soft " on Communism.

* Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC, who will have a prominent part in the murder of Tiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters ( d. 132 BC )

For many years, leading politicians of the right-wing New Democracy party, as well as the conservative press, falsely claimed that Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou was the mastermind behind 17N.

Maschke is now a leading conservative antidemocratic intellectual and editor of Carl Schmitt.

In addition, two leading conservative Privy Councillors were removed from the centre of power.

The leading conservative Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten argued in an editorial that Ossietzky was a criminal who had attacked his country " with the use of methods that violated the law long before Hitler came into power " and that " lasting peace between peoples and nations can only be achieved by respecting the existing laws ".

The purchasers were predominantly leading nobles, local magnates and gentry ; with no discernible tendency in terms of conservative or reformed religion, other than a determination to maintain and extend their family's position and local status.

According to Frum, " AEI represents the best of the conservative world ... But the elite isn ’ t leading anymore ... I think Arthur took no pleasure in this.

In December 1886, when Lord Randolph Churchill suddenly resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Salisbury offered the position to Goschen, by far the most conservative of the leading Liberal Unionists.

His father was a leading Whig and Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional.

The crucial factor enabling Prussia's conservative regime to survive the Vormärz era was a rough coalition between leading sectors of the landed upper class and the emerging commercial and manufacturing interests.

Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life Basic Books: 2002 online edition, by a leading conservative scholar

Arnulf then proceeded to exile to Bavaria two leading senators, Constantine and Stephen, who had helped Ageltrude seize the city.

He was again the First Division's leading goal scorer, this time with 30 goals, and helped Everton finish second in the league.

It has been argued that Rasputin helped to discredit the tsarist government, leading to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917.

It may have done some good, for some years later the uThulwana made their mark as one of the leading regiments that helped liquidate the British camp at Isandlwana.

The maps and journals of the explorers helped to define the boundaries during the negotiations leading to the Adams – Onís Treaty, which set the western boundary as follows: north up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to its intersection with the 32nd parallel, due north to the Red River, up the Red River to the 100th meridian, north to the Arkansas River, up the Arkansas River to its headwaters, due north to the 42nd parallel and due west to its previous boundary.

In November 1919, Mao took a leading role in the re-organization of the banned United Student Association, and in December helped to organize a student strike in Changsha's schools, designed to cripple Zhang's control.

Meat Puppets II turned the band into one of the leading bands on SST Records, and along with the Violent Femmes, the Gun Club and others, helped establish the genre called " cow punk ".

This helped to form unions between cities, leading to regional states.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Throughout the 1950s, Trudeau was a leading figure in the opposition to the repressive rule of Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis as the founder and editor of Cité Libre, a dissident journal that helped provide the intellectual basis for the Quiet Revolution.

Virgil seems to have made connections with many of the other leading literary figures of the time, including Horace, in whose poetry he is often mentioned, and Varius Rufus, who later helped finish the Aeneid.

Banks was also the leading founder of the African Association, a British organization dedicated to the exploration of Africa, and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to establish the Royal Academy.

While Home Secretary, Peel helped create the modern concept of the police force, leading to officers being known as " bobbies " ( in England ) and " Peelers " ( in Northern Ireland ).

Nord-Pas-de-Calais was barely touched by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 ; indeed, the war actually helped it to cement its leading role in French industry due to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.

Granz helped solidify her position as one of the leading live jazz performers.

Benjamin Franklin, a leading citizen, helped improve city services and founded new ones, such as fire protection, a library, and one of the American colonies ' first hospitals.

Less than a tenth of the force had survived the expedition, but Anson's achievements helped establish his name and wealth in Britain, leading to his later appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty.

After Rakutenkai had been disbanded a number of Aoki's leading practitioners and teachers, who had helped him create Shintaido, left the group.

These passages lead in erratic directions, some leading beyond the southern edge of the Temple Mount ( they are at a depth below the base of the walls ); their purpose is currently unknown – as is whether they predate the Temple Mount – a situation not helped by the fact that apart from Warren's expedition no one else is known to have visited them.

This helped prevent an inflationary spiral and restored the island's international competitiveness thereby leading to a period of long term economic growth of 2. 7 % between 1993 and 2000.

It also helped launch Kathleen Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas as a capable leading man, and gave director Robert Zemeckis his first box-office success.

Charles City County farmers have also helped develop the leading technology for controlling runoff from grain cultivation.

* Harriet Tubman, a leading African American abolitionist who helped liberate scores of slaves through the Underground Railroad, worked in a Cape May hotel around 1850.

The successful company was transferred to OPET in 1992, and rapid development in the following years helped achieving its leading position today.

Prior to the Civil War they were joined by the Roe, Leonard and Stansfield families, who helped establish St. Mary's Episcopal Church and leading businesses like a general store and the Leonard Wax Company.