Edmund Burke's critique of the French revolution

  The French Revolution, at least in the initial period had lot of support in England.  Edmund Burke were one of the English supporter of French Revolution.   Burke's criticise the king's control over the English and oppression, exploitation and misrule in India by the East India Company, Burke's Reflections was written during the revolutionary years. His immediate concern was the perceived danger of the French revolution's impact on England and in other parts of Europe. 

 In Reflections, Burke's  had a detailed criticism of both the theoretical and practical aspects of the Revolution. He pointed out the dangers of abstract theorising, but was realistic enough to provide for an alternative mode of social progression.  Burke provided a framework for change with continuity.  As Burke pointed out, that conservation and correction operated in England during the critical periods of the Restoration and the Revolution.  But in both these critical times, a totally new one did not replace the entire edifice of the old order. Instead, a corrective mechanism was achieved to rectify the deficiencies within the existing constitutional framework.   

 Burke criticised Jacobinism for its wholesale attack on established religion, traditional constitutional arrangements and the institution of property, which he saw as the source of political wisdom in a country. He often used the term "prejudice", by which he heal it attachment to established practices and institutions. These provided a bulwark against sweeping changes, particularly those that followed from a rational critique. He did not support evervything that was ancient, only those that held society together by providing order and stability.