Edmund Burke: Old Whig

By |2024-01-11T18:34:15-06:00January 11th, 2024|Categories: American Founding, Classical Liberalism, Edmund Burke, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

In the Whig view to which Edmund Burke subscribed, the validity of law is independent of its source; who makes a rule, whether the people or a tyrant, is irrelevant. The Old-Whig Burke denied that the exercise of will, whether arbitrary or rational, has anything to do with the determination of law. Edmund Burke, the passionate defender [...]