Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 1791
Category : France
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0375712534
The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke’s writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day. Edited and Introduced by Jesse Norman.
Author : Iain Hampsher-Monk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521570053
The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequent generations, the emergence of the modern political world. It offered a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology and revolutionary transformation which inspired, argues Iain Hampsher-Monk, the whole world-wide communist experiment of the twentieth Century. In this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of this period on (primarily) the British experience, Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin, along with the impact of other less celebrated writers.
Author :
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Conspiracy
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Author : William Thomas Laprade
Publisher : Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Conspiracy
ISBN :
Originally presented as the author's thesis, John Hopkins University, 1909.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Political science
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Cowell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1315310031
Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds. More recently, this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines the main arguments against the HRA and the issues which have led to public hostility against the protection of human rights. The first part of the book looks at the legal structures and constitutional aspects of the case against the HRA, including the criticism that the HRA is undemocratic and is used by judges to subvert the will of parliament. The second part of the book looks at specific issues, such as immigration and terrorism, where cases involving the HRA have triggered broader public concerns about the protection of human rights. The final section of this book looks at some of the structural issues that have generated hostility to the HRA, such as media coverage and the perception of the legal profession. This book aims to unpick the complex climate of hostility that the HRA has faced and examine the social, political and legal forces that continue to inform the case against the HRA.
