Things to Consider:

• The Glorious Revolution
• Catholic Emancipation
• Richard Price
• common law vs. statute law: The difference between the common law and statute law is that whereas statute law is codified, common law is not.

• What, according to the editors, did British conservatives/loyalists find most alarming about the French Revolution?

• What is Price's central argument?

• What is a Protestant Dissenter?
• What is popery?

• To what three principles does Price call attention? Why?

• What appears to be Burke's central argument?

• Explain:  "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors" (195).

• Explain: "The age of chivalry is gone" (198). [Is this necessarily a bad thing? Explain.]

• Explain: "All the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: . . . the nobility and the clergy" (200).

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• Explain: "Society is indeed a contract. . . . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

• What are the Test Laws?

• Explain:  "Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together with all sorts of follies" (194).
• cf. Rousseau's Emile:
• Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one soil to nourish the products of another, one tree to bear the fruits of another. He mixes and confuses the climates, the elements, the seasons. He mutilates his dog, his horse, his slave. He turns everything upside down, he disfigures everything, he loves deformities, monsters. He wants nothing as nature made it, not even man himself. For him man must be trained like a saddle-horse; he must be shaped according to the fashion, like trees in his garden.
• What is an entailed inheritance?

195:

• What is "a permanent body composed of transitory parts" (195)?
• Explain: "In this choice of inheritance, we [are] . . . binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections" (195).

• Explain: "All men have equal rights; but not to equal things" (196).
  

196-97:

• Is this a sympathetic portrayal of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? Of their captors?  Explain.

• Explain:  "All homage paid to the [female] sex in general as such, and without distinct views, is to be regarded as romance and folly" (199). [Why is such a statement included in a discussion of the Revolution?]
• Explain:  "Regicide, and parricide, and sacrilege, are but fictions of superstition" (199).
• Explain:  "Public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law" (199).

• To what does Burke refer as "the swinish multitude" (200)? Explain his reference.