ABSTRACT
Montesquieu recognized very clearly the danger of tyranny emerging in the guise of democracy, and we have already explored this danger of sliding into a republique non libre. Many of Montesquieu's ideas reappear in Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Prophetically, Edmund Burke recognized that democratic tyranny would emerge out of a disrupted constitutional balance and from that a series of tyrants. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke refers to, "The power, which to be legitimate must be according to that eternal, immutable law, in which will and reason are the same". The Glorious Revolution in England was made, according to Burke, "to preserve the ancient and indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is the only security for law and liberty". For Burke, the Glorious Revolution was "a small and temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession".
