POL320Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: French Revolution, Natural And Legal Rights, Heredity
2 May 2016
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Questions to guide the reading of burke"s reflections on the revolution in france. Burke viewed the french revolution as a digest of anarchy he believed that this revolution was one that had taken an extreme turn in what true political structure"s should emulate. He advocates for the basic rights of men however the abstract rights that were held in esteem by the french elites and revolutionaries were ones that were impossible to reconciliation with a current existing political structure. He believed that these abstract rights were too fickle in determining a political structure and a regime built on these principles would end up in ruin or at worst tyrannical rule. The right to choose our governors, the right to cashier them for misconduct and the right to frame a government for ourselves, were never truly expressed as rights by the english people.
