SOURCE:Francis Canavan, "Prescription and Government," in Edmund Burke: Prescription and Providence, Carolina Academic Press, 1987, pp. 113-35.
In the following essay, Canavan explains how Burke's theory of prescription led to his belief that preexisting moral obligations in a divinely-willed state both supersede and underpin the rights and liberties of individuals secured through social contracts.
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