Kirk's Ten Principles of Conservatism

I agree to pretty much every aspect of all of these. Here is the link. Hopefully this will clarify what exactly I believe about government and society.

http://www.kirkcenter.org/kirk/ten-principles.html

One further note concerning political theory in regard to no. 9. I disbelieve in the traditional republican and libertarian adage that "the government that rules best rules least." This contains the notion that governments are inherently evil, though a necessary evil. I see governments as a dispensation of grace by God that keep sinful man from falling into anarchy. The best kind of government is a limited government. One that is limited to its proper sphere (see post of spheres below) though this does not mean that the government is small (in the libertarian/Jeffersonian republican sense) since there are things which I deem part of government's sphere (e.g. labor laws, environmental legislation, a degree of moral censorship, a very limited amount of social relief) that most classical Jeffersonians and libertarians would consider to be marks of "big government." I think that my post on the sphere is the best explanation of my political beliefs. While I belief that limited governments have a definate positive benefit on society, I don't think governments are a panacea for society like modern liberals do. When governments overstep their limits they do more harm than good. In this sense I am allied with libertarians.

As an aside, I would see myself as an avid supporter of the (classical) British system. In American politics, I would ally myself more with the Washington/Adams vision for American (though not the Hamiltonian. Adams was distinct from Hamilton in many ways and it is not fair to lump all Federalists into one generic category) as opposed to the Jeffersonian one. Jefferson was far too influenced by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution for my taste.