SOURCE / edition
Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Project Gutenberg's readable electronic edition of Burke's Reflections.
CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 2
Where this source is used
Burke argued that a state requires a capacity for change in order to preserve itself.
- supports · paragraph beginning ‘A state without the means of some change’
Burke defended inherited institutions and prescription against reconstructing government solely from abstract rights or present choice.
- supports · paragraph beginning ‘You will observe, that from Magna Charta’