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In "Reflections on the Revolution in France", Burke assailed the French Revolution for appealing to natural rights. However, only a few years earlier, he supported the American Revolution, which did the exact same thing! Did he ever address this seeming hypocrisy?

by /u/johannesalthusius in /r/AskHistorians

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