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It is against this backdrop that we must consider barry goldwater s seminal treatise the conscience of a conservative. A message to our youth by jedediah bila weve heard a lot of talk about how the republican party. But it is too personal, petty, and smallp political to qualify. The ancient and tested truths that guided our republic through its early days will do equally well.