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Questions on Conservatism. June 21, 2000
Whenever appropriate support your answers with one or more quotes from the texts assigned.
1) How do conservative thinkers view human nature?
2) Who is Edmund Burke?
3) Why does Burke think that the Glorious Revolution is a Lockean revolution, but the French
Revolution a mere rebellion?
4) How does Burke describes the French National Assembly?
5) What is so great about British constitutionalism?
6) What does Burke think of the idea of a social contract?
7) How does he understand the notion of rights?
8) Does Burke support political change ? Justify your answer.
9) What is "natural aristocracy?"
10) Define the 'little platoons."
11) Summarize and critique either Bork or Reed's article in the Ball and Dagger Reader.
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