Conservative Manifesto

Examples of Conservative Manifesto in the following topics:

• Challenges to the New Deal

  • It also united conservatives in both parties.
  • The court-packing plan strengthened conservative opposition to the New Deal.
  • Known as the Conservative Coalition (at the time, the term "conservative" referred to the opponents of the New Deal and did not imply any specific party affiliation), it initiated a conservative alliance that, with modifications, shaped Congress until the 1960s.
  • In 1937, Bailey released a "Conservative Manifesto" that presented conservative philosophical tenets, including the line "Give enterprise a chance, and I will give you the guarantees of a happy and prosperous America."
  • The Manifesto called for reduced governments spending, balanced budget, and lowering taxes.

• Domestic Conservatism

  • Roosevelt's New Deal faced great opposition from conservative Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
  • The counterattack first came from conservative Democrats, led by presidential nominees John W.
  • Senator Josiah Bailey (D-NC) released the "Conservative Manifesto" in December 1937, which marked the beginning of the "conservative coalition" between Republicans and southern Democrats.
  • The Conservative Coalition generally controlled Congress until 1963; no major legislation passed which the Coalition opposed.
  • Conservatives in the East and South were generally interventionists, as typified by Henry Stimson.

• Political Critiques of the New Deal

  • Its strong links with business elites and pro-business agenda discouraged popular support but the League remained one of the most vocal conservative voices opposing the New Deal in the mid-1930s.
  • After Roosevelt's failed attempt to appoint additional pro-New Deal judges in the Supreme Court (the so-called "court packing plan"), conservative opposition strengthened and unified.
  • Known as the Conservative Coalition (at the time, the term "conservative" referred to the opponents of the New Deal and did not imply any specific party affiliation), it initiated a conservative alliance that, with modifications, shaped Congress until the 1960s.
  • In 1937, Josiah Bailey, Democratic senator and one of the staunchest critics of the New Deal,  released a "Conservative Manifesto" that presented conservative philosophical tenets, including the line "Give enterprise a chance, and I will give you the guarantees of a happy and prosperous America."
  • The Manifesto called for reduced governments spending, balanced budget, and lowering taxes.

• Class Conflict and Marx

  • Although many of these voters are poor and in debt and would benefit from more liberal economic policy, they vote for fiscally conservative Republicans because Republican ideology has duped them into prioritizing cultural issues over their economic interests.
  • Famously, Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. " Class struggle pushed society from one stage to the next, in a dialectical process.
  • The Communist Manifesto gives an overview of Marx's theory of class conflict and embraces his position that sociologists should also be publicly active social critics.
  • In this video, the test of the manifesto is illustrated with cartoon clips that demonstrate the deep and enduring legacy of Marx's philosophy for modern culture.

• The Ostend Manifesto and Cuba

  • Dubbed the Ostend Manifesto, it was immediately denounced in both Northern U.S. states and Europe.
  • American free-soilers, recently angered by the Fugitive Slave Law (passed as part of the Compromise of 1850), decried the Manifesto, dubbed by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune as “The Manifesto of the Brigands”, as unconstitutional.
  • The backlash from the Ostend Manifesto shelved any expansionist plans for Cuba for several decades.
  • Pierre Soulé, the driving force behind the Ostend Manifesto and its resultant political fallout.
  • Explain what the Ostend Manifesto was and why Southern Expansionists supported the policy

• The National Convention

  • Unlike electoral manifestos in many European countries, the platform is not binding on either the party or the candidate.
  • For example, defenders of abortion lobbied heavily to remove the Human Life Amendment plank from the 1996 Republican National Convention platform, a move fiercely resisted by conservatives despite the fact that no such amendment had ever come up for debate.

• Distribution of Wealth and Income

  • Conservative economic policy may provide tax cuts to wealthy business owners in attempt to increase their profits, on the basis that doing so will improve the country's overall economy.
  • An idea taken from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is that wealth should be distributed as according to the precepts of, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. " While states such as the Soviet Union and China have implemented communist systems to varying degrees, Marxism has never been realized in its ideal form, and no country has had a totally equal distribution of wealth.

• The Law of Conservation of Mass

  • The law of conservation of mass states that mass in an isolated system is neither created nor destroyed.
  • However, Antoine Lavoisier described the law of conservation of mass (or the principle of mass/matter conservation) as a fundamental principle of physics in 1789.
  • This law was later amended by Einstein in the law of conservation of mass-energy, which describes the fact that the total mass and energy in a system remain constant.
  • A portrait of Antoine Lavoisier, the scientist credited with the discovery of the law of conservation of mass.
  • This video explains how atoms are conserved in a chemical reaction.

• Conservation of Mechanical Energy

  • In any real situation, frictional forces and other non-conservative forces are always present, but in many cases their effects on the system are so small that the principle of conservation of mechanical energy can be used as a fair approximation.
  • Let us consider what form the work-energy theorem takes when only conservative forces are involved (leading us to the conservation of energy principle).
  • If only conservative forces act, then Wnet=Wc, where Wc is the total work done by all conservative forces.
  • This equation is a form of the work-energy theorem for conservative forces; it is known as the conservation of mechanical energy principle.
  • An example of a mechanical system: A satellite is orbiting the Earth only influenced by the conservative gravitational force and the mechanical energy is therefore conserved.

• Conservative and Nonconservative Forces

  • A conservative force is dependent only on the position of the object.
  • Gravity and spring forces are examples of conservative forces.
  • We can extend this observation to other conservative force systems as well.
  • The total work by the conservative force for the round trip is zero:
  • For a conservative force, work done via different path is the same.