Yes. Conservatives believe in the principles set forth in the U.S. Constitution, and the vision of the Founding Fathers for our country.
Libertarians believe in a separate ideology of absolute minimal government that is sometimes in line with conservatism, but often incompatible with our seminal ideals found in English common law, and with the concept of a limited and localized but not non-existent government as set forth in the Constitution.
Most conservatives are small-L libertarians, but it doesn't work the other way around.
Conservatives don't want to legalize drugs, either.
prisoner6
Except for drug control, gun control, sex control, God control, and about 15 other controls...
Wrong. Conservative very, very, very much want to legalize drugs, drug use, manufacture, licensing, dispensing. Legalization by law is the method.
What you either aren't subtle enough to understand, and probably meant to say was that Conservatives don't want to DElegalize drugs. In other words, Conservatives want large, intrusive, all encompassing government in the drug problem. Just like liberals, just not housing, farm supports, welfare, foreign aid. So from one subject, anyways, Conservatives accept, if not welcome, the principals of big government in general. Big, all encompassing powers, rules, regulations, laws, bureaucracies, agencies, spies, informers, prisons and such.
Many Conservatives have the same fundamental view of drugs, law, and state power as do Leftist with gun control. Just as the leftist ascribe evil powers to inanimate objects and criminalize the possession of those weapons, so do many, but not all, Conservatives with drugs.
Except for an income tax, drug laws, gun laws, very strong fed govt with very weak state power. etc