America presented again the problem of consent in the special perspective of the imperial relation; and the decision which grew out of the blundering obscurantism of the King enabled Burke nobly to restate and amply to revivify the principles of 1688.
Laski reflects on America's unique consent issues within the imperial context and Burke's response to them.
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