The first and most traditional ideology was conservatism. Like the name assumes, conservatism consisted of traditional upper class aristocrats who accepted little change and were very …show more content…
They strongly believed that political order should be held by those with wealth, power, and status as inherited through their families and nobility. Additionally, power should be kept within those aristocratic elites throughout generations in order to preserve the monarchy and keep traditional institutions. Edmund Burke, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France, wrote that the overthrowing a government is extremely dangerous and should be avoided. They strongly disagreed with the idea of change and the shifting of power to non-aristocratic people. There was also the strong belief in the importance of religion. These dominant ideas from the conservatives strongly conflicted with the fundamental ideas of other political ideologies such as nationalism and