Edmund Burke's Reflections Of The Revolution In France
In Reflections of the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke intellectually attacks the French for the occurrences that took place in their country during the late 1700s. Burke was strongly opposed to immense political reform. In this book, he voices his belief that it is counteractive to try new types of government because it can lead to the loss of the progress achieved by the past generations. Thus, he argues that all men are subject to a generational contract that embodies beings from the past, present and the future. This is where I begin to have a problem with Burke’s argument because, as stated in Paine’s book The Rights of Man, old forms of government cannot keep up with new elements that come about with changing times; thus, civilians