...the English political experience, still characterized this traditionalist orientation as operating 'in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world' and realizing 'a constitutional policy working after the pattern of nature.'81 And Friedrich Karl von Savigny,...

...in a kind of mortmain forever. . . . We hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives" (120). If power fell into the hands of other classes, patricians claimed, sectional or private interests...

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world...

...an entailed inheritance: 'we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives'.67 Entailment was a widespread legal practice in eighteenth-century England, a means of passing...

...the best-known passage in Burke's later writings is his description of the British constitution as placed in "a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world."25 A similar passage that seems to me as important — though instructively different in its...

...beyond human reason and that the legitimacy of government and social hierarchy rested on the fact that 'Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world'.3 Burke's views on reason and government came to dominate the political stage and rational dissenters...

...tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression." 53 The British constitutional monarchy is "placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world" insofar as generations of people pass through its stable and enduring political institutions. Like...

...reassuringly observed, 'we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives' (Burke 2001, pp. 1H2, 184; Pocock 1960). While Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)...

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives." Property itself, the privileges and values that constitute the national inheritance, takes the form...

...stands in wonder before "the disposition of a stupendous wisdom" in the English social order, a system "placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world," a mechanism both providential and natural, "the result of profound reflection, or rather the happy...