The American founding fathers viewed individual freedom as the cornerstone of the new American state.  At the same time, they understood freedom within the framework of the relationship between a state and a man (by analogy with the fact that religion is the relationship between God and man).  This human-state paradigm formed the basis of the new state (although the founding fathers did not use this term). They correctly noticed that the higher the state's role in a person's life, the less individual freedom a person has, and vice versa: the smaller the state's role in a person's life, the higher the individual freedom.  This postulate of the classical liberalism of the eighteenth century in the twenty-first century began to be called conservatism, and for some unimaginable reason, neo-Marxism began to be called liberalism even though it has nothing to do with liberalism. By the 20th century, this idea was formalized, and the level...(Read Full Article)