I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

As a further characterization of the liberal conservative split we may observe that it involves differences in the formula for escaping inevitabilities in history.

For instance, so-called `` conservative '' organizations, some of them secret, are sprouting in the garden of joining where `` liberal '' organizations once took root.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

In May 1894 King Alexander staged another coup: he abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 1869.

It meant that a liberal and a conservative prime minister would succeed each other ending the strifes.

Alongside these liberal and left-wing efforts, a small group of conservative institutions were born in Ann Arbor.

Although Carolla often supports social viewpoints traditionally dominated by liberal politicians, such as his support for abortion and the legalization of marijuana, his socio-political views tend to be largely conservative or libertarian.

He was a liberal during the conservative 1950s, only to switch to conservative during the liberal, hippie-era 1960s.

The political camp became divided by supporters of O ' Higgins, Carrera, liberal Pipiolos and conservative Pelucones, being the two last the main movements that prevailed and absorbed the rest.

The presidency would be determined by an alternating conservative and liberal president every 4 years for 16 years ; the two parties would have parity in all other elective offices.

Soon after that, in May 2002, the former liberal politician of conservative leanings Álvaro Uribe, whose father had been killed by left-wing guerrillas, was sworn in as Colombian president.

Generally, the ( liberal ) right beyond the specific case of huge and conservative Civic Democratic Party is splintered and has failed in several attempts to unite.

Burke's views were a mixture of liberal and conservative, with the crucial caveat that the meaning of these terms in this time period was markedly different from popular conceptions of the present day.

He accepted the liberal ideals of private property and the economics of Adam Smith, but thought that economics should be kept subordinate to the conservative social ethic, that capitalism should be subordinate to the medieval social tradition and that the business class should be subordinate to aristocracy.

Liberal conservatism is a variant of conservatism that combines conservative values and policies with classical liberal stances.

Over time, the general conservative ideology in many countries adopted economic liberal arguments, and the term liberal conservatism was replaced with conservatism.

This is also the case in countries where liberal economic ideas have been the tradition, such as the United States, and are thus considered conservative.

In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous.

( See Japan general election, 2003 ) Likewise, that year, the LDP won the election, even though it suffered setbacks from the new opposition party, the liberal and social-democratic Democratic Party ( DPJ ).

The anti-LDP coalition government of Morihiro Hosokawa was formed by reformists who had triggered the 1993 election by leaving the LDP ( Japan Renewal Party, New Party Sakigake ), a liberal party formed only a year before ( Japan New Party ), the traditional centre-left opposition ( Kōmeitō, Democratic Socialist Party, Social Democratic Federation ) and the Democratic Reform Party, the political arm of the Rengō trade union federation, together with the JSP.

In July 1946 the LDP and the liberal parties in the Western Zones founded a joint Coordination committee with the aim of forming an All-Germany liberal party ( Deutsche Demokratische Partei, DPD ).

At an extraordinary party congress held 9 – 10 February 1990 in Dresden it returned to genuine liberal policies and restored its name to the Liberal Democratic Party, ( Liberal-Demokratische Partei ( LDP )).

Formerly known as a conservative politician in the LDP, he now takes liberal stances on domestic and international policies.

Order and Justice (, TT ), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party ( Liberalų Demokratų Partija, LDP ), is a right-wing national liberal political party in Lithuania, though it self-identifies as ' left-of-centre '.

Flach became member of the liberal LDP ( in the Soviet zone of Germany ) and worked in 1948 / 1949 for the LDP newspaper Norddeutsche Zeitung in Schwerin.

Kōmeitō did quite well, and in 1993, when the LDP was for the first time declared an opposition party, the Kōmeitō became one of the ruling parties, headed by the liberal Japan New Party, but which also included the Democratic Socialist Party, Japan Renewal Party, the New Party Sakigake, and the Japan Socialist Party.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

He was no flaming liberal, yet the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the New Frontier needed him.

It was predicted that Kohnstamm-negative subjects would adhere to more liberal, concretistic reports of what the ambiguous figure `` looked like '' as reflecting their hesitancy about taking chances.

The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.

The insistence of Bienville upon giving liberal prices to the Indians, in order to drive back the Carolina traders, was probably a factor that led to his recall in 1724.

Hence he was in his lifetime, as is the memory of him afterwards, a canker within the liberal sensitivity.

The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.

A liberal foreign investment law was approved in June 1994, and a Law on Privatization was adopted in 1997, as well as a program on state property privatization.

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Ealdred did much to restore discipline in the monasteries and churches under his authority, and was liberal with gifts to the churches of his diocese.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

When this heresy-decree, to be made effective, was forwarded to other congregations for approval, the friends of liberal thought, under the leadership of the Tibbonites, issued a counter-ban, and the conflict threatened to assume a serious character, as blind party zeal ( this time on the liberal side ) did not shrink from asking the civil powers to intervene.

* New Alliance ( Nuova Alleanza ), formerly called Right and Freedom ( Destra e Libertà ), headed by Altero Matteoli and Adolfo Urso, was formed by the staunchest supporters of Gianfranco Fini within the party and supported a liberal political agenda.

The college's mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students " for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness & reputation " by providing instruction " in the Vernacular and Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition remarks that " At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal " and that " the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit.