Let's Define Things (Again)!

Via our friends at the Volokh Conspiracy, I discovered a very interesting article by a law professor (who else?) at the University of Chicago, Geoffrey Stone.

The theme of the article (found here) is that liberals need to do a better job defining who they are and what they stand for, if they expect to make any long-term political inroads. To that end, Stone has enumerated ten propositions that he thinks capture contemporary liberalism accurately. For example:

6. Liberals believe government has a fundamental responsibility to help those who are less fortunate. It is liberals who have supported and continue to support government programs to improve health care, education, social security, job training and welfare for the neediest members of society. It is liberals who maintain that a national community is like a family and that government exists in part to "promote the general welfare."

I found the article interesting and thought-provoking. Naturally, I found much to disagree with (not limited to #6 above) in his propositions, but that's to be expected.

I'd like the commenters - such as there are - to enumerate additional prositions for liberalism and, if willing, enumerate a few for conservatism, libertarianism, or whichever strain of thought you like.