著者

岸本 広司 Hiroshi Kishimot

雑誌

聖徳学園岐阜教育大学紀要 = Bulletin of Gifu College of Education (ISSN:09160175)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, pp.129-152, 1996-02-29

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Edmund Burke introduced an Economical Reform Bill into Parliament on 11 February 1780 with one of his finest speeches. It was a refrom bill which would reduce patronage power of the Crown, and thus reduce its power to control the House of Commons. It was not Burke's intention blindly to preserve any institution. He recognized that change was an integral part of the social process. He advocated many reforms, especially economical reform. But reform for him meant the amelioration of the British Constitution, not its replacement by something new. Therefore his conception of reform was intrinsically conservative. In this paper, I clarify the relationship between conservation and reformation in Burke's political thought.