@Astinsan @genophilia I use very technical terminology to prevent ambiguity. My

@Astinsan @genophilia I use very technical terminology to prevent ambiguity. My understanding of the term ‘conservative’ is Burkeian: that the french revolution was wrong, and that the torries had been largely right (sovereignty is in the people (their laws), not parliament or monarch). This meant:

“Tories differ from conservatives in that they opposed the idea that sovereignty derived from the people and rejected the authority of parliament and freedom of religion.”

“Burke accepted the ideals of private property and the economics of Adam Smith (1723–1790), but thought that economics should remain subordinate to the conservative social ethic, that capitalism should be subordinate to the medieval social tradition and that the business class should be subordinate to aristocracy.[citation needed] He insisted on standards of honor derived from the medieval aristocratic tradition and saw the aristocracy as the nation’s natural leaders.”

In scientific prose that means traditional rule of law of the natural common law, monarchy, parliament, qualifications of achievement for parliament, and for voting for parliament, presumed military service, and ethnonationalism in state affairs and the family over the individual in social affairs.