The conservative voice has echoed throughout American thought: from Patrick Henry and George Mason insisting that the Constitution include a specific Bill of Rights; to Thomas Jefferson arguing that government governs best that governs least; and finally to Ronald Reagan arguing that free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. For more than 200 years, conservatism has played a major role in shaping American government and the western tradition. As the dominant force in Republican politics, conservatives today control both houses of Congress and have held the presidency for twenty-two of the past thirty-four years.
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