IMHO....Mauser comes much closer to the proper description of Conservatism.....
Most Conservatives I speak with, seem to believe the same way.
I am a committeeman for the Conservative Party in my county, and I can state flatly that Mauser's view is virtually unanimous with them.
True Conservatism is not a "one dimensional" thing, it is a whole lifestyle belief system...
Conservatism does believe in a literal, "graven in stone" constitution, but it doesn't stop there; it embraces the "Faith of our Fathers", traditional family values and morals.
Conservatism has the basic "cowboys philosophy"...shoot straight, deal fairly and don't back down from riff-raff...
Do we sin...sure we do, but we also repent and mend our ways.
Comparing Conservatism to today's Liberalism....we find polar differences
Liberalism wants athe Constitution to be a "living document" ( that is one that activist judges can twist and pervert).
Liberals consider the Faith of their Fathers to be some kind of joke, something to drive out of the public square.
Liberals would, given the chance, destroy the traditional family and of course, they think morals are "whatever"!
Rather than adhere to the "cowboy philosophy" they seem to much more admire the "European Socialist" philosophy....self interested, self centered and cave in to Terrorists..
No surprise that Libs hate to have a "Cowboy" as President!
Where Conservatives admit to sin and repent...Liberals deny that such a thing as "sin" exists...
Between the two we have very polarized positions...the base of our current "culture war ".