Politics & Government · Political Theory
A topic within Political Theory, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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Edmund Burke
Abstract rights torn from the slow accumulation of custom and prejudice produce not liberty but terror, because a society's inherited arrangements embed knowledge no revolutionary plan can replace.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Edmund Burke
Defends the Reflections against fellow Whigs by arguing the party's own principles always rested on prescription and inherited constitutional practice, not on the abstract natural rights his critics now claimed for it.
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