Edmund Burke and the American Cause
Edmund Burke was one of the voices in the British Parliament who defended the American cause in their Revolution. He didn't question Britain's power to tax the colonies, as William Pitt the Elder did, but rather argued that to do what Britain had never done before was not something the English tradition of liberty could or should endure. Although Burke's arguments were not heeded, history has vindicated and elevated him with every passing generation, as the founder of modern conservative thought.
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I was born near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where we grew up with stories about the town's two namesakes, but not Edmund Burke. John Wilkes, the hero to the Sons of Liberty who served time for criticizing George III, was a member of the Hellfire Club -- about which, the less said, the better. Isaac Barré whose phrase "Sons of Liberty" came to symbolize the Revolution in three words, was vehemently opposed to the Quebec Act, which granted religious and civil rights to Catholics in Canada.
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Indeed a reformation and exemption but in particular aspects of Magna Carta prevailed in the American Independence. Though Burke became a Tory some years later.