Now of course conservatives (and, one hopes, the vast majority of everyone else) also believe that there are negative rights in education: there are some things the state simply cannot do to families and children in the name of education, for example make private education or homeschooling illegal or, more controversially and for some conservatives, replacing parents in their role of teaching children about sexuality.
But for some prominent conservatives, such facts are not just inconvenient.
And now for reaction from some conservatives, who have been increasingly unhappy with the war in their own way.
Except for some tea party conservatives, most lawmakers insisted they wanted to extend the payroll tax break, but nobody would budge when it came to paying for it.
On Friday UKIP's Nigel Farage said the prime minister was a "problem" for the Conservatives and some Tory MPs said there were lessons for the party.
No wonder some conservatives hope for a Christie presidential run.
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Some conservatives have called for such a private market.
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It could provide a boost for the immigration bill, which has been attacked by some conservatives as overly costly, as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to take up the legislation for amendments and votes beginning Thursday.
As for the Conservatives, there will be some anger on the backbenches towards the Lib Dems.
Meanwhile, some conservatives are attacking Rutherford for what they say is his move toward the left.
His staunch support for Israel has helped the Conservatives in some Toronto and Montreal districts with a large Jewish vote, says John Wright of Ipsos Reid, a polling firm.
My sense is that for social conservatives, there's still some skepticism, but the line the White House took with these worriers was, look, there's only a little more than a year left in this administration, give us a break.
The Labour leadership has faced criticism from Conservatives and even some within its own ranks for appearing to be on the side of benefit cheats and people who do not want to work.
Some fiscal conservatives worry about the impact of America's appetite for imported oil on the dollar.
At the same time, conservatives who have bemoaned "judicial activism" for decades should show some restraint in cheering on a decision that, ideology aside, would reverse the trajectory of 70 relatively uncontroversial years of an expansive reading of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
Conservatives generally oppose any breaks for those who came to America illegally although some, like Sen.
At least some conservatives have been suggesting that we should look north of the border for a model of fiscal down-sizing.
Yet the result in Parma also showed that some of the middle-class conservatives who kept Mr Berlusconi in power for eight years have become susceptible to Mr Grillo's populist rhetoric.
Mr Cameron, who started working for the Conservatives in 1988 when Lady Thatcher was still in No 10, acknowledged some people did not agree with her politics, but he suggested large parts of her legacy were undisputed.
As soon as the election was over, some of these conservatives were at the front of the line, attacking Romney for his supposed fecklessness.
Back in the UK, the Chancellor George Osborne was facing complaints from some Conservatives that money was going on climate finance when budgets were being cut for services in Britain.
The Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats made a commitment to a bank holiday on 1 March in their 2011 election manifestos, while the Conservatives have proposed a Welsh "Order of St David's" for some years.
Some Lib Dems believe that there is not much depth of support for the bill among the Conservatives and they will not go to the wire to save the measure.
"I think that the conservatives, plus some business elites, are concerned about the Democrats being too liberal for them, " so they want someone like Kelly who can replicate the policies of outgoing independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Republican predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, said City University of New York Graduate Center political scientist John Mollenkopf.
Conservatives in the U.S. Congress and some voices in the Arab world have called for arming the opposition.
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She disputed suggestions from some conservatives that repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" is responsible for an increase in male-on-male assaults.
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