| Domenico Losurdo - 2004 - 404 páginas
...with an opposite value judgment: "You will observe that from Magna Carta to the Declaration of Rights it has been the uniform policy of our constitution...from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity."62 This is precisely the private form denounced by Hegel, whose value judgment is shared... | |
| Keith Negus, Michael J Pickering - 2004 - 192 páginas
...available, and that tradition, in the pluralised sense of the term, is not to be taken, unquestioningly, as 'an entailed inheritance derived to us from our...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity' (ibid.: 119). This is fundamentally misconceived, for nothing is unchangeably preserved throughout... | |
| Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 páginas
...business of true liberty. On the contrary, as Burke would argue in the Reflections, "|F]rom Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform...whatever to any other more general or prior right." These facets of the revolutionary narrative in Burke's historical thought had the further effect of... | |
| Peter Viereck - 216 páginas
...is a prescriptive constitution . . . [whose] sole authority is that it has existed time out of mind without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. Burke shocked his century by his brutal frankness in defending "illusions" and "prejudices" as socially... | |
| Peter Viereck - 200 páginas
...prescriptive constitution [whose] . . . sole authority is that it has existed time out of mind . . . without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right." The latest research of the philosopher Leo Strauss confirms that Burke never resolved that contradiction.... | |
| Robert Luce - 2006 - 674 páginas
...idea in his Reflections on the Revolution in France": "You will observe that from Magna Charta down to the Declaration of Right it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and 'assert OUT liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted... | |
| Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp, Matthew Tiews - 2006 - 470 páginas
...sacred institutions: king, church, and property. These institutions were natural because inherited: "derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity."'4 Subjection of the common people was a natural part of this sacred order, Burke wrote:... | |
| Allan Hepburn - 2007 - 313 páginas
...politics, aesthetics, and national identity. 'You will observe,' he writes, 'that from Magna Carta to the Declaration of Right it has been the uniform...whatever to any other more general or prior right ... We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and a House of Commons and a people inheriting... | |
| Daniel I. O'Neill - 2010 - 306 páginas
...European civilization and its underlying system of manners had to be treated with reverential awe, as an "entailed inheritance derived to us from our...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity." At bottom this is because such institutions were the "happy product of following nature, which is wisdom... | |
| Arthur M. Melzer, Robert P. Kraynak - 2008 - 240 páginas
...which the constitution has grown over time. From the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Rights, he says, "it has been the uniform policy of our constitution...specially belonging to the people of this kingdom." This policy, he adds, "appears to me to be the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy effect... | |
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