Thesis: While conservatism in the early 19th century may seem like a rejection to revolution, it was more about silencing the middle class and keeping the power with the institutions and practices of tradition.
The French Revolution was the beginning of taking power away from monarchs and institutions, to giving power to the middle class and spreading the role of democracy. While the middle class, or Third Estate, were for this new era and embedded Enlightenment thinking and social contract theory into their minds; there were some who disagreed with this new development. The two documents, one from Edmund Burke and another from Prince Klemens von Metternich, expressed concern for this new revolutionary state coming upon the land and felt
The French Revolution was the beginning of taking power away from monarchs and institutions, to giving power to the middle class and spreading the role of democracy. While the middle class, or Third Estate, were for this new era and embedded Enlightenment thinking and social contract theory into their minds; there were some who disagreed with this new development. The two documents, one from Edmund Burke and another from Prince Klemens von Metternich, expressed concern for this new revolutionary state coming upon the land and felt