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conservative-libertarianism

conservative-libertarianism noun: a type of libertarianism that tries to balance freedom and individual liberty with a respect for virtue, tradition, and order.

Noun

conservative-libertarianism (uncountable)

  1. 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...2014, A. Terrance Wiley, Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 99

Questions about conservative-libertarianism

What does conservative-libertarianism mean?
Conservative-libertarianism means a type of libertarianism that tries to balance freedom and individual liberty with a respect for virtue, tradition, and order.
What part of speech is conservative-libertarianism?
Conservative-libertarianism is a noun.

Words near conservative-libertarianism in the dictionary

  1. conservative model
  2. conservative models
  3. Conservative Party
  4. conservative treatment
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  6. conservative-libertarianism
  7. conservatively
  8. conservatively correct
  9. conservativeness
  10. conservatives
  11. conservativism

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