1. Our Inherited Liberties
In this reflection he astutely stated the above quote, in which he talks about the inheritance of liberties passed down in posterity by the forefathers. ... As it is said above, the main idea of this passage is analogizing inherited liberties, or choices as they are written in the constitution, with the sense of family or unity as a people. ... In the first clause Burke writes, "In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of relation in blood"(69). ... The next two clauses in the passage say roughly the same thing only they are worded differently. ... Furthermo...
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