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Publication Date

[n.d.]

Place of Publication

London

Book-plate

No

Summary

Edmund Burke was an eighteenth-century British statesman, parliamentarian and political theorist whose writings remain central to modern political conservatism. For Robert Menzies, Burke was a central intellectual influence, whom he described as ‘the greatest of all practical political philosophers. In his Forgotten People broadcasts, Menzies would directly quote from Burke’s conception of the role of an MP, who was not to be a delegate obeying the wishes of their electorate, but instead should bring their ‘matured judgment’ to individual issues. He would also use Burke to justify creating a political party united around ‘leading general principles of government’. This book collates Burke’s writings in three sections: ‘The Governance of Britain’, ‘America and the Colonies’, and ‘The French Revolution’. The underling of passages found in all three sections suggests how Menzies’s conception of democracy was shaped by Burke’s writings.

Edition

Nelson Classics edition

Number of Pages

476

Publication Info

hardcover