...patrimony derived from their forefathers.3 And more generally: You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform...as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our 1 Leviathan, ch. XVII. 1 Reflections on the Revolution, p. 109. 3 ibid., p. 1 1 8. forefathers, and...

...in the Reflections. 'Our oldest reformation', he wrote, 'is that of Magna Charta': From Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right it has been the uniform...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity. . . We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and a House of Commons and a people inheriting...

...characteristic passages from the 'Reflections' may be quoted : 'You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform...to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritancl derived from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity" (Burke, Works, vol....

...hereditary title" to "theoretic science." From the time of Magna Carta onward, Englishmen had asserted their "liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us...from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity—as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever...

...universalism or "abstract principles," exclusion is registered in the necessary partiality of inheritance: "It has been the uniform policy of our constitution...from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity."7 The idea of a shared and exclusive inheritance, which in the hands of a Disraeli becomes...

...exclusivist language and symbols typical of nationalism. This is well expressed by Edmund Burke's words: "It has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an ensiled inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity."25...

...monarchy. Government should be run like a family "estate," in which each generation receives rights and liberties "as an entailed inheritance derived to us...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity" (119). The correlation between political and domestic order is so fundamental that it saturates the...

...7-8. This is clearly also Burke's interpretation of British history. He says From the Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform...and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate especially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more...

...or "abstract principles," exclusion is registered in the necessary partiality of inheritance—"it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity." 8 The idea of a shared and exclusive inheritance, which in the hands of a Disraeli becomes the grounds...

...universalism or "abstract principles," exclusion is registered in the necessary partiality of inheritance — "it has been the uniform policy of our constitution...from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity."8 The idea of a shared and exclusive inheritance, which in the hands of a Disraeli becomes...