Our founding fathers took a very radical step. But we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking they were doing it for purely liberal reasons. They were business men and the king's laws were strangling their trade. And their trade meant jobs and money for the people in the colonies.

Good point, Naemanson. Except that in those days, those were very liberal viewpoints. The conservative viewpoint of that day would have been that the King knows what he's doing and therefore his laws are good, and we should be good subjects, pay our taxes to the king, and keep our mouths shut and not criticize the government.

But the term "conservative" means different things in different places. I have a friend who is from Canada, and who lives in the US these days. By his standards of conservatism, I'm a conservative, and DougR is a flaming liberal.