Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0903 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Burke: The Constitution Is Not Arithmetic
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The idea
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France of seventeen ninety held the social fabric complex and fragile, kept from chaos only by tradition, so that gradual reform beats rapid change. The anchor quotes him: a kingdom's constitution is not a problem of arithmetic.
In practice
Liberties as an entailed inheritance from ancestors, in his own words.
Where people slip
Video 0933 reads him.
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