World History 2 per. 3
12/9/14
Exactly what was it that Burke did not like about the French Revolution?
Edmund Burke despised the French Revolution. He hated pretty much every thing that was happening to France during the revolution, because he loved the old France, and hated the new one. The one thing that Edmund really didn't like, was that the king was put into jail. This really made him furious, because he despised democracy, and he thought that the best thing was to just have one ruler that every one would follow. Thats why he was really mad about the king being in jail. He believed that there should be rankings, that the lower would look up to the higher ranked people such as a king. But with a democracy, there was no looking up to people, every one was more or less equal, and every one had rights. Edmund truly believed that people couldn't handle the power and freedom, and also share it between every one. He thought that it would be better for one person to just have it. He believed that if this power were to be shared, that nothing would get done, and that there would just be a lot of arguments, so like I said before, he believed that this wouldn't happen with one leader. Although he made a good argument, and was able to back this up with what he believed. But in the end it didn't go well for Edmund Burke, because France did the things that he hated. They got rid of the king, made a democracy, and gave the power to the people.
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