Founding Fathers

[Roemerista]

The American Revolution was conservative in nature. Assuming intellectual consistency, why would Edmund Burke be accepting of the American one, and distasteful of the French?

This is not a 'crazy' view, but one held by quite a few historians, how non-radical the revolution was, and maintaining in their view their "English rights."

Read the founding documents, then go read your Blackstone.

But it wasn't the type of conservative that republicans want it to be. Closer to Link's definition, than the teaparty's.

[Roemerista]

He disproved of the French Revolution because it undermined society "foundations," and disliked it because it was led by "intellectuals."  The whole point of Reflections was that we cannot throw a way aggregate experience of society for some "intellectual" experiment, as they surely had less knowledge than society...