It would be the "Watergate Scandal" that <span>weakened support for the federal government in the mid- 1870s, since it was believed that President Nixon had lied to the public about stealing. </span>
By 1820, this compromise<span> had been realized as two bills were passed. The first made Maine the 23rd state. The second admitted </span>Missouri<span> as a slave state and set the parallel 36°30' as the dividing line between enslaved and free states as the country continued to expand. This </span>compromise<span> was </span>successful<span>.</span>
I say Israel - and I hope this is taken in an utterly nonpartisan way, which takes absolutely no position vis-a-vis the legitimacy of either conservatism or the Israeli state. I just think some core aspects of Israeli government and society are in line with mainstream US conservatism: a free-market liberal democracy of course, but with formal religious-ethnic affiliation, compulsory military service with training on firearms (and licensing to possess same) for all citizens, and a generally hawkish stance on questions of military and defense. They are also highly security-oriented, some would say in a much more effective way than the US government, and its security apparatus employs profiling techniques which almost undoubtedly have a racial component (<span>and </span><span>conservatives would no doubt want to insist that these two facts are directly related). I believe that taxation rates are roughly on par with that in the US, if not a bit less... though not nearly as low as Switzerland. </span>
