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Edmund Burke’s Alternative: Political Theory and the American Revolution

March 13, 2017
John G. Grove

The ultimate lesson Burke drew from the American crisis was starkly opposed to the one suggested by the Declaration: That equality as a guiding principle actually distorts our perception of political justice by blinding us to meaningful and essential differences within a body politic. The American Revolution is often seen as a historical movement in […]

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