Conservatism (Simple English Wikipedia)

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"BBC – History – Edmund Burke (1729–1797)". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC (UK). 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

Muller, Jerry Z. (4 May 1997). Conservatism : an anthology of social and political thought from David Hume to the present. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-691-03711-0. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Terms related to 'conservative' first found their way into political discourse in the title of the French weekly journal, Le Conservateur, founded in 1818 by François-René de Chateaubriand with the aid of Louis de Bonald.

Ball, Terence; Dagger, Richard; Minogue, Kenneth; Viereck, Peter (26 July 1999). "Conservatism | History, Intellectual Foundations, & Examples". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
"Conservatism (political philosophy)". Britannica.com. Retrieved November 1, 2009.

McLean, Iain; McMillan, Alistair (18 January 2010). The concise Oxford dictionary of politics (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920516-5. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Sometimes it (conservatism) has been outright opposition, based on an existing model of society that is considered right for all time. It can take a 'reactionary' form, harking back to, and attempting to reconstruct, forms of society which existed in an earlier period(subscription required)