Why I too am not a conservative : the normative vision of classical liberalism 1. Why I too am not a conservative 2. Classical liberalism and the perfectibility of man 3. Normative presuppositions for democracy 4. Beyond law : the institutionalized ethics of liberal order 5. The equivocal ethics of liberalism 6. The soul of classical liberalism 7. Classical liberalism as an organizing ideal 8. The sense of community in Hayekian moral order 9. The Hayek difference 10. God the state and the market 11. Madisons angels 12. The emergence of a classical liberal : a confessional exercise Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard to find essays exploring liberalism and conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is presented here as a coherent political and economic position as distinguished from both modern liberalism and conservatism