...evident. If conservatism means anything at all, says Orr, it means the conservation of what Burke called "an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers,...and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate belonging to the people." It does not mean preserving those rules whereby one class or one generation...

...universalism or "abstract principles," exclusion is registered in the necessary partiality of inheritance — "it has been the uniform policy of our constitution...to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inhevitance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity."6 The idea...

...rights were inherited rather than inherent: 'From the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Right, it had been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim...and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specifically belonging to the people of our kingdom without any reference to any more general or prior...

...cis-a-cis the past and the notion of national inheritance. For Burke, the essence of English liberty is 'as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our...to be transmitted to our posterity - as an estate belonging to the people of this kingdom . . . [Thus England can be seen to be comprised of] an inheritable...

...reading endurance, tenacity, and an inherited estate become the peculiar qualities of the British. "From Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it...and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate especially belonging to the people of this kingdom."20 With a few well-chosen words, Burke makes moments...

...and not the abstract reasoning on which he sees the revolutionaries trying to found their new order.] You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration...us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any reference whatever...

...the Revolution in France ([1790] 1986), Burke described the intergenerational obligation to pass on liberties "as an entailed inheritance derived to us...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity" (1 19). For Burke, society is "a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those...

...Revolution in France (1790), Burke (1986, p. 119) described the intergenerational obligation to pass on liberties "as an entailed inheritance derived to us...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity." For Burke, society is "a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are...

...on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.' 7 'You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right [the Bill of Rights of 1688/9], it has been the uniform policy of our 3 Ibid., p. vii (emphasis in...

...les « principes abstraits » de la Révolution française est contenu dans la phrase suivante : « It has been the uniform policy of our constitution...to our posterity : as an estate specially belonging the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatsoever to any more general or prior right. »...