(He also supported Irish independence from Britain.) In Burke's eyes, British and American revolutionaries had exercised their "inherited" rights and liberties as British subjects, and they had worked within British traditions and institutions. He, for example, supported both the British Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 and the American Revolution. Although Burke supported ideas and institutions later associated with Metternich's conservatism, he also took positions that most conservatives would have disavowed. His most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, was written in the form of a letter to a French friend. He wrote books on philosophy, history, and political theory. At the age of 37, he was elected to the House of Commons. Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text at the web site of the Eris Project at Virginia Tech.īorn in Ireland, Edmund Burke as a young man moved to London where he became a journalist and writer.
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