Therefore, they receive more scrutiny. Different political usage of the words freedom and equality as well as liberal and conservative lead to their conveying different meanings to different people over time. The familiar distinction holds that liberals favor a larger role for government and conservatives a smaller role. This distinction, however, fails to take into account conservatives' greater emphasis on government's role in maintaining social order. Liberals favor government action to promote equality, whereas conservatives favor government action to promote order.
Libertarians favor freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order.
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