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Edmund Burke's Political Theory 1. Burke is quite critical of many of the liberal political theorist that have we have discussed. For Burke terms like liberty, freedom, natural rights, and the General Will should not be used in abstraction. They can only be discu ....

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.... of our own passions and drives. There is a need for a power outside of us, a power that we do not consent to that will restrain our passions. 3. "The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and more experience than any [one] person can gain in whole life, however intelligently and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on the building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved uti ....