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conservative-libertarianism en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (uncountable) A type of libertarianism that tries to balance freedom and individual liberty with a respect for virtue, tradition, and order.
   • The doctrines of conservative liberalism were propounded by the late nineteenth century's leading intellectual proponents of the night watchman state. 1992, Mark A. Graber, Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 18:
   • The synthesis or attempted synthesis of libertarianism with conservatism and the alliance of certain libertarians with the Republican Party led to the development of conservative-libertarianism, which has obscured the character of right-libertarianism. In practice, right-libertarianism is often reduced to conservative-libertarianism. 2014, A. Terrance Wiley, Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 99:

Coordinates

left-libertarianism · right-libertarianism