Unit 14:: Conservatism and Reaganism
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Abstract

It may seem strange today, but America did not have a selfconscious conservative movement until well into the twentieth century. The priorities that we most often associate with conservatism—limited government and the free market, in particular—were the priorities of liberals into the nineteenth century, in that they preserved people's liberty. Developments of the early 1900s began the process that resulted in an identifiable conservative movement by midcentury.

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