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The Conservative Canon and Its Uses
2012
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
In this essay, I aim to locate the scriptural force of American conservatism's secular canon. My basic claim is that the canon created and managed the potential for symbolic fusion and fracture among conservatives. Th e canon provided the tools to weather the rocky marriage between various conservative sects: traditionalists, libertarians, neoconservatives, and others; the canon aff orded resources for each faction to establish their bona fides and to protect their version of authentic
doi:10.1353/rap.2012.0008
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