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Nathaniel Greene: Revolutionary War Hero
On August 7, 1742, Nathaniel Greene was born in Rhode Island, which his father, John Greene, had helped establish. His education was limited, but the future general was taught thoroughly in the few books that were available. One of these books was the Bible, where most of Greene’s habits and ideas about life came from. Nathaniel saved up to buy books and built up an extensive library for his time. Greene was also trained as a miller and as a blacksmith. Eventually his father purchased a mill in the town of Coventry, and told Nathaniel Greene to be the manager. The new leader accepted, and moved to Coventry where Greene took part in Community Affairs, and even established the first school there. Greene's friends and neighbors liked him, because the citizens found him very dependable; consequently in 1770 Greene was elected to the General Assembly of Rhode Island. In 1774, with the threat of British Invasion imminent, Nathan was drilled, and then placed in the Kentish Guards. In July, 1774, Greene married Catharine Littlefield, a young woman of a good family from Rhode Island. Then, fighting erupted with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Greene was one of the four people to go to Boston to aid the colonies. At the time Rhode Island was in command of about 1,600 men. Greene was made major general of Rhode Island’s troops. His studies in Military Science while Nate was in Coventry helped him overcome certain situations. In June 1775 Greene had his troops stationed outside of Boston. When George Washington showed up, George and Greene became friends. His army was placed into the Continental Army, so his rank was decreased to a Brigadier-General. However, Greene accepted this and looked forward to serving under Washington. In time, Nathan was stationed at Long Island in case the British attacked New York. The Tories did, and unfortunately Greene was forced to retreat. However, Greene was promoted back to Major-General. When Washington's troops were resting at Valley Forge, the lack of supplies became apparent. Washington then appointed Greene as quartermaster. Nathaniel didn't want to accept the task, for this meant the unsure Rode Island native wouldn't be a general during the time. However, Greene still completed the task with efficiency, and also kept loyal to Washington after being approached by a conspiracy to overthrow Washington. Eventually, Greene resigned as Quartermaster and returned to commanding forces.
After the betrayal of Benedict Arnold, Greene took command of West Point. However, South Carolina was being invaded. Gates, the general commanding the troops that were to fight the invasion were defeated. When Congress asked Washington who would succeed Gates, Washington promptly named Greene. Greene rushed south to see the army in shambles, lacking supplies as well as wounded. Greene knew the objective was to avoid the British General Cornwallis, so Greene eluded him for a while, and then lured him to the Guildhall Courthouse. In an epic battle Greene's army of composed of militia men suffered less losses than the Tories, so Cornwallis retreated quickly. Greene's forces had very little ammo left, so the army could not pursue the fleeing soldiers. Soon, another Tory army challenged Greene's force, but was thwarted when Greene retreated to a fort, sending hope to all patriots. Greene continued to dispose of Tories in South Carolina in battles such as Eutaw Springs. Charlestown was all that remained. However, Washington had defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown, and the British withdrew from Charlestown.
As a token of their gratitude, Congress gave Greene land in the South. In 1785, Greene settled on the plantation with his wife and children. On June 12, 1786, Greene visited a friend of his to see his rice fields. Unfortunately, Greene was over exposed to the sun's rays. Greene became gravely ill and passed away on June 19, 1786 in the countryside near Savannah, Georgia.

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Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante. Cultural conservatism is a philosophy that supports preservation of the heritage of a nation or culture.

The political term conservative was coined by French politician Chateaubriand in 1819.[1] In Western politics, the term conservatism often refers to the school of thought started by Edmund Burke and similar thinkers.[2] Scholar R.J. White wrote:"To put conservatism in a bottle with a label is like trying to liquify the atmosphere … The difficulty arises from the nature of the thing. For conservatism is less a political doctrine than a habit of mind, a mode of feeling, a way of living."[3] Russell Kirk considered conservatism "the negation of ideology".[4]

Conservative political parties have diverse views; the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, the Conservative Party in Britain, and the Liberal Party of Australia are all major conservative parties with varying positions.
Although political thought from its beginnings contains many strains that can be retrospectively labeled conservative, it was not until the Age of Enlightenment, and in particular the reaction to events surrounding the French Revolution of 1789, that conservatism began to rise as a distinct political attitude or train of thought. Many point to the rise of a conservative disposition in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, specifically to the works of influential Anglican theologian, Richard Hooker, emphasizing moderation in the political balancing of interests towards the goals of social harmony and common good. Edmund Burke’s polemic Reflections on the Revolution in France helped conservatism gain prominence.

Edmund Burke was among the first to support American Revolution, while opposing the French Revolution, which he saw as violent and chaotic. He pressed for parliamentary control of royal patronage and expenditure.[5]

His classical conservative position often insisted that conservatism has no ideology, in the sense of a utopian program, with some form of master plan. Burke developed his ideas in response to the enlightened idea of a society guided by abstract reason. Although he did not use the term, he anticipated the critique of modernism, a term first used at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch religious conservative Abraham Kuyper. Burke was disinclined "to give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction".[6]

Burke argued that some people had less reason than others, and thus some people will make better governments than others if they rely upon reason. To Burke, the proper formulation of government came not from abstractions such as reason, but from time-honoured development of the state, piecemeal progress through experience and the continuation of other important societal institutions such as the family and the Church. He argued that tradition draws on the wisdom of many generations and the tests of time, while reason may be a mask for the preferences of one man, and at best represents only the untested wisdom of one generation. However, Burke wrote, "A state without the means of change is without the means of its conservation." Burke insisted further change be organic rather than revolutionary. An attempt to modify the complex web of human interactions that form human society, for the sake of some doctrine or theory, runs the risk of running afoul of the iron law of unintended consequences.

Conservatives strongly support the right of property, and Carl B. Cone, in Burke and the Nature of Politics, pointed out that this view, expressed as philosophy, also served the interests of the people involved.[7] Conservatives are usually economic liberals, diverging from classical liberalism in the tradition of Adam Smith.[8] Some conservatives look to a modified free market order, such as the American System, ordoliberalism, or Friedrich List's National System. The latter view differs from strict laissez-faire, in that the state's role is to promote competition while maintaining the national interest, community and identity.

Most conservatives strongly support the sovereign nation (although that was not so in the 19th century), and patriotically identify with their own nation. Nationalist separatist movements may be both radical and conservative. Some conservatives are friendly toward the idea of nation, such the liberal conservative New-Flemish Alliance, which has sought peaceful secession of Flanders from Belgium.


[edit] Forms of conservatism

[edit] Liberal conservatism
Liberal conservatism is a variant of conservatism that combines conservative values and policies with liberal stances. As these latter two terms have had different meanings over time and across countries, liberal conservatism also has a wide variety of meanings. Historically, the term often referred to the combination of economic liberalism, which champions laissez-faire markets, with the classical conservatism concern for established tradition, respect for authority and religious values. It contrasted itself with classical liberalism, which supported freedom for the individual in both the economic and social spheres.

Over time, the general conservative ideology in many countries adopted economic liberal arguments, and the term liberal conservatism was replaced with conservatism. This is also the case in countries where liberal economic ideas have been the tradition, such as the United States, and are thus considered conservative. In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous. The liberal conservative tradition in the United States combines the economic individualism of the classical liberals with a Burkean form of conservatism (which has also become part of the American conservative tradition, such as in the writings of Russell Kirk).

A secondary meaning for the term liberal conservativism that has developed in Europe is a combination of more modern conservative (less traditionalist) views with those of social liberalism. This has developed as an opposition to the more collectivist views of socialism. Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of free-market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with social liberal views on defence of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state. This philosophy is that of Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. In continental Europe, this is sometimes also translated into English as social conservatism.


[edit] Conservative liberalism
Conservative liberalism is a variant of liberalism that combines liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or, more simply, the right wing of the liberal movement.[9][10][11] The roots of conservative liberalism are found at the beginning of the history of liberalism. Until the two World Wars, in most European countries the political class was formed by conservative liberals, from Germany to Italy. Conservative liberalism is a more positive and less radical version of classical liberalism.[12] The events such as World War I occurring after 1917 brought the more radical version of classical liberalism to a more conservative (i.e. more moderate) type of liberalism.[13]


[edit] Libertarian conservatism
Main article: Libertarian conservatism
Libertarian conservatism describes certain political ideologies within the United States and Canada which combines libertarian economic issues with aspects of conservatism. Its five main branches are Constitutionalism, paleolibertarianism, neolibertarianism, small government conservatism and Christian libertarianism. They generally differ from paleoconservatives, in that they are in favor of more personal and economic freedom.[citation needed] Agorists such as Samuel Edward Konkin III labeled libertarian conservatism right-libertarianism.[14][15]

In contrast to paleoconservatives, libertarian conservatives support strict laissez-faire policies such as free trade, opposition to the Federal Reserve and opposition to business regulations. They are vehemently opposed to environmental regulations, corporate welfare, subsidies, and other areas of economic intervention. Many of them have views in accord to Ludwig von Mises.[citation needed] However, many of them oppose abortion, as they see it as a positive liberty and violates the non-aggression principle because abortion is aggression towards the fetus.[16]


[edit] Fiscal conservatism
Fiscal conservatism is the economic philosophy of prudence in government spending and debt. Edmund Burke, in his 'Reflections on the Revolution in France', articulated its principles:

...[I]t is to the property of the citizen, and not to the demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged. The claim of the citizen is prior in time, paramount in title, superior in equity. The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor's security, expressed or implied...[T]he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.

In other words, a government does not have the right to run up large debts and then throw the burden on the taxpayer; the taxpayers' right not to be taxed oppressively takes precedence even over paying back debts a government may have imprudently undertaken.


[edit] Green conservatism
Green conservatism is a term used to refer to conservatives who have incorporated green concerns into their ideology. The Conservative Party in the United Kingdom under David Cameron has embraced a green agenda that includes proposals designed to impose a tax on workplace car parking spaces, a halt to airport growth, a tax on gas-guzzling 4x4 vehicles and restrictions on car advertising.[citation needed]


[edit] Cultural conservatism
Main article: Cultural conservatism
Cultural conservatism is a philosophy that supports preservation of the heritage of a nation or culture. The culture in question may be as large as Western culture or Chinese civilization or as small as that of Tibet. Cultural conservatives try to adapt norms handed down from the past. The norms may be romantic, like the anti-metric movement that demands the retention of avoirdupois weights and measures in Britain and opposes their replacement with the metric system. They may be institutional: in the West this has included chivalry and feudalism, as well as capitalism, laicité and the rule of law.

In the subset social conservatism, the norms may also be what is viewed as a question of morality. In some cultures, practices such as homosexuality are seen as immoral. In others, it is considered immoral for a woman to reveal too much of her body.

Cultural conservatives often argue that old institutions have adapted to a particular place or culture and therefore ought to be preserved. Others argue that a people have a right to their cultural norms, their own language and traditions.


[edit] Religious conservatism
Religious conservatives seek to apply the teachings of particular ideologies to politics, sometimes by proclaiming the value of those teachings, at other times seeking to have those teachings influence laws. Religious conservatism may support, or be supported by, secular customs. In other places or at other times, religious conservatism may find itself at odds with the culture in which the believers reside. In some cultures, there is conflict between two or more different groups of religious conservatives, each claiming both that their view is correct, and that opposing views are wrong.

Because many religions preserve a founding text, or at least a set of well-established traditions, the possibility of radical religious conservatism arises. These are radical both in the sense of abolishing the status quo and of a perceived return to the radix or root of a belief. They are ante conservative in their claim to be preserving the belief in its original or pristine form. Radical religious conservatism generally sees the status quo as corrupted by abuses, corruption, or heresy. One example of such a movement was the Radical Reformation within the Protestant Reformation and the later Restorationists of the 1800s. Similar phenomena have arisen in practically all the world's religions, in many cases triggered by the violent cultural collision between the traditional society in question and the modern Western society that has developed throughout the world over the past 500 years.

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