conservative-libertarianism
English
Noun
conservative-libertarianism (uncountable)
- A type of libertarianism that tries to balance freedom and individual liberty with a respect for virtue, tradition, and order.
- Coordinate terms: left-libertarianism, right-libertarianism
- 1992, Mark A. Graber, Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 18:
- The doctrines of conservative liberalism were propounded by the late nineteenth century's leading intellectual proponents of the night watchman state.
- 2014, A. Terrance Wiley, Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 99:
- 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.