[Zack Nguyen]

Conservatism and moral vision simply is what it is. First and foremost is an understanding that God is sovereign over nations, and that all people should be equal before the law. Once we understand that, all people, from the very old to the unborn, the traditional family and the individual, deserve protection and this forms the backbone of conservatism.

Because we know that human beings are corrupt and tend to corrupt what they touch, we wish to keep government as small as we can to protect against tyranny and a loss of freedoms. To keep government small we have to keep taxes low. Low taxes encourage economic growth and charitable giving unencumbered by government shackles.

This, then, forms the core of conservatism - human freedom limited by law that stem from an unchanging moral code that in turn comes from God.

[Wolfstar]

Umm...meaning no disrespect, but you have a woeful misunderstanding of what political conservatism is. Here's the definition from Mirriam-Webster Online:

Main Entry: con·ser·va·tism
Pronunciation: k&n-'s&r-v&-"ti-z&m
Function: noun
Date: 1835
1 capitalized a : the principles and policies of a Conservative party b : the Conservative party
2 a : disposition in politics to preserve what is established, b : a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change
3 : the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change.

The founders were NOT conservatives as many today think of the term. When they wrote the Constitution, they had only recently overthrown the old British order, something so exceedingly radical that it had never been done before in history. Some were small 'r' republicans who argued for a weak, minimalist federal government but reasonably strong state governments. Thomas Jefferson is the most prominent proponent of this view. Others were outright statists as we understand the term today. They wanted to eliminate the states entirely and have only one unified country with a strong federal government. Alexander Hamilton is the most prominent of this group, and he even went so far as to propose a hereditary monarchy during the first Constitutional Convention.

A number of compromises were written into the Constitution in order to accommodate and balance this wide range of views. For example, elections for the House were based on proportional representation. Representatives were to be elected directly by the people. But in order to protect states rights and provide a check on the power of the federal government, each state, no matter how large or small, was to have two senators, and they were to be appointed by their state legislature. This is called the Great Compromise because it balanced the concerns of small states and large, and balanced direct federal elections with the selection by each state of two agents (senators) to act on the state's behalf in the federal structure of government.