For example, instead of providing for the election of England’s governors, it laid down a more precise line of Protestant succession, seeing this as a guarantor of English liberties. In his sermon, Price claims that, according to the principles of the 1688 Glorious Revolution, English people have the right “to choose our own governors” “to cashier them for misconduct” and “to frame a government for ourselves.” Burke argues that Price’s interpretation of the Glorious Revolution is inaccurate, and that its subsequent Declaration of Right laid down no such rights. Burke explains that he does not approve of the French Revolution, or the Revolution Society, which is in contact with France’s National Assembly and seeks to extend Revolutionary principles in England.īurke begins by critiquing a sermon that was recently delivered by Dissenting minister and political radical Richard Price. Edmund Burke writes to a young French correspondent, Depont, who has asked for his views of the current revolutionary events taking place in France.
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