Libertarian conservatism is a
conservative political philosophy and ideology that combines
right-libertarian politics and conservative values. Libertarian conservatives' first value is
negative liberty to achieve
socially and
culturally conservative ends. They reject
liberal social engineering.
Frank Meyer, a co-founder of
National Review has called this combination
fusionism. In political science, the term is used to refer to ideologies that combine the advocacy of economic principles, such as fiscal discipline, respect for contracts, defense of private property and free markets and the classical conservative stress on self-help and freedom of choice under a
laissez-faire capitalist society with social tenets such as the importance of religion, and the value of traditional morality through a framework of limited, constitutional, representative government.