“A small and a temporary deviation”: Edmund Burke’s Reflections on exception in Reflections on the Revolution in France
By insisting that the change of monarch as a result of the Glorious Revolution was no more than “a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession,” Edmund Burke was promoting an interpretation of the Glorious Revolution in terms of an exception that simply c...
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2020-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/4237 |