Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
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The Differences Between Burke and Payne on the French Revolution
Burke and Payne had been more or less on the same side of the American question in the previous decade. Burke supported the Americans because although he thought that Parliament had the right to tax them as it shows to, he thought the British Parliament was behaving foolishly. So they ended up on theSame side ultimately, but for very different reasons. And those very different reasons led them to be in very different places on the question of France.
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