Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 22 March 1775.
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Text 5 : Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 22 March 1775.
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1) This speech was delivered on 22 march 1775 in the House of Commons, during the American War of Indenpendance. Edmund Burke expresses his support to American colonies. He wants to restore relations between the British government and American colonies. He wants to change British policy towards the colonies by re-evaluate the question of taxing.
2) Burke uses differents rhetorical devices to persuade his audience. At the beginning of his speech he used the repetition of the word “liberty”, he also used hyperbole during the second part of his speech (“infinite pain”; “no shadow of liberty”). Moreover, he put a rhetorical question to prove his audience they are in the wrong.
3) Edmund Burke explained that sentence by saying that “The colonies draw from you, as with their life-blood, these ideas and these principles”. Here, he refers to history and to the notion of liberty that England used to glorify. He wants the American colonies to have now a real right on their liberty.
4) Burke is correct by saying that the question of taxing was central to past struggles for liberty in England. Indeed; the idea of an english liberty became central during the Civil War of the 1640s's.
3) Edmund Burke explained that sentence by saying that “The colonies draw from you, as with their life-blood, these ideas and these principles”. Here, he refers to history and to the notion of liberty that England used to glorify. He wants the American colonies to have now a real right on their liberty.
4) Burke is correct by saying that the question of taxing was central to past struggles for liberty in England. Indeed; the idea of an english liberty became central during the Civil War of the 1640s's.
4) Burke is correct by saying that the question of taxing was central to past struggles for liberty in England. Indeed; the idea of an english liberty became central during the Civil War of the 1640s's.
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