...time. As Burke wrote at the opening of a previous revolutionary period in Europe, a sense of belonging ought not to be considered as nothing better than...a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco.' It is a partnership 'not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those...

...Burke remarks 'the state ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in the trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or...for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved at the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; Demos 85 because it is not...

...contract: Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought...interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. (368) The petty and easily rescindable contracts of mercantile exchange in colonial contexts, which...

...Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest maybe dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to...interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. (368) The petty and easily rescindable contracts of mercantile exchange in colonial contexts, which...

...contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure—but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...of social institutions. As did Edmund Burke, who protested against a society conceived and conducted as "nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco ... to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved at the pleasure of the parties,"...

...Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occa• 519 ' sional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or...

...contract. Subordinate contracts tor objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure—but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a parrnership agreement ma trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern,...

...communitarian or kinship foundations of covenant and to dismiss contractarianism, in Edmund Burke's words, "as nothing better than a partnership agreement in...calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern" (quoted in Cameron, 1974: 74). 3. It is impossible to imagine a viable constitutional order without...

...administrated human interests. "The state ought not to be considered," wrote Edmund Burke in 1 790, "as nothing better than a partnership agreement in...or some other such low concern, to be taken up for little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancies of the parties."32 This antipathy toward...