...constitutional, change should always be in response to some change in non-political circumstances. As he puts it, 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation'. But change should be continuous and graduaL Prescription, which he intends in its legal sense as 'uninterrupted...

...Burke on have tended to oppose. There is no reason to doubt Burke's sincerity in the well known words: 'A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.' We know he virtually adored the Revolution of 1688; and his sympathy for the American colonists rested...

...extinguished for ever.' Evidently politics should not be reduced to a science." Burke never scanted reform - 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation' 12 - but, he insisted, change must come gradually and it must be consensual. Not even Burke's rhetoric...

...extinguished for ever.' Evidently politics should not be reduced to a science." Burke never scanted reform - 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation'12 but, he insisted, change must come gradually and it must be consensual. Not even Burke's...

...believed, threatens society with instability. British parliamentarian Edmund Burke put it this way: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."15 The Founders wrote a Constitution that frustrates advocates of rapid change. Separation...

...results in greater internal efficiency but ultimate redundancy or, as Burke (1912: 21) elegantly puts it, '(A) state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation'. The problem is that the flipside of this snuation, as Britan and Cohen (1980: 15-16) observe, is to...

...konservativen Theorie, mit seinen „Reflections on the Revolution in France" [1790], London 1953, S. 19f.: ,A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." rühmte, „Den Vereinigten Staaten" gewidmete, avant la lettre 'europamüde' Gedicht „Amerika, du...

...of the few. In politics as well, evolution is the keynote of the constrained vision. Burke declared: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."3 Yet he would not subject whole political systems to "the mercy of untried speculations."4...

...achievements. Even in historical periods of relative stability and continuity the words of Edmund Burke apply: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." In a healthy civilization old and new must blend and shape each other: "The whole, at one time, is...

...include a principle of change which recognized differences between men, or the state could not survive: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." 64 Permanent political arrangements are meaningful only as they sustain and are sustained by the changing...