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![]() ![]() ![]() His famous pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) manifested what Thomas Jefferson called a “revolution in Mr. Then he met the French Revolution, and his views seemed to change abruptly. He stood against slavery and prosecuted the head of the British East India Company for corruption. The Irish-born politician started as a fiery Whig, a voice for American independence and for Dissenters and radicals at home in Great Britain. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is the philosophical fountainhead of modern conservatism. ![]()
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