Political Principles

I get annoyed when I hear fake conservatives try to distinguish themselves from their liberal counter-parts as being "principled" but they are, in reality, no such thing. And you hear a lot of politicians say the same, "We need to hold on to our conservative principles." I have a challenge for anyone who says this: what are those principles? I usually hear two things, which is fidelity to the constitution and encouraging a free market. But these are hardly principles. If fidelity to the constitution is what makes you a conservative, then it means there were no conservatives in the founding era prior to the drafting of the Constitution. There's no principle to be had there. And so it doesn't count as a principle. Principles are something like axioms, or certain truths that remain throughout history and place. Like natural law. That is why I call myself a natural law conservative. If I take an oath to the constitution and I find another document better suited to run a country, I am going to leave behind the constitution. I cannot say that loyalty to the constitution is a principle because the constitution could be such that it declares law that is fundamentally evil. What then happens to my principles? Am I no longer a man of principles? It is better to just be loyal to the principles of natural law. Anyone who doesn't get this isn't a conservative.