POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Radical Change, Connation
17 Dec 2013
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Revolutionaries hate their past (social, political), burke says this is like hating yourself you set up your trade without capital : you start your position of self loathing. National assembly from the third estate, therefore they aren"t long term politicians. The destruction of prejudice- in burke"s world it"s a positive connation, things that are raised in habit and they are intuitive. Nothing in heaven or earth constrains a constituent assembly. National assembly has no standings that restrain their powers in writing their constitution p. 45 the assembly since the destruction of the orders, has no fundamental law nothing can control them : like a sovereign with no limits. He is anti- egalitarian on the social and political level (not moral level). P. 52 said 24 mil ought to prevail over 200,000 (general pop of aristocratic) means that just being arithmetically stronger does not make you correct.
