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Constitutional Conservatism is the belief in free
enterprise, limited government, and traditional conservative
principles within constitutional boundaries. Essentially,
constitutional conservatives believe that the ideas and intent of
the framers, who formed the constitution, should be applied to
government for all time, and seek to restore or maintain a
constitutional size of government.
In the United
States of America, constitutional conservatives believe in the
size and scope of the government as envisioned and originally
intended by the Founding Fathers. Typically they are pro-life,
pro-religious freedom, pro-fair trade, pro-gun rights, and are
almost universally strong supporters of private property rights,
and support a limited federal government, less regulation of the
economy, and support nationalism.