ABSTRACT
The Natural Law is fundamental in Edmund Burke's conception of man and civil society. Burke's faith in the Natural Law secured him firmly to the most vital ethical and political traditions of Europe, so that he was able to ride out the storm of ideas that swept over Europe during the last half of the eighteenth century. Burke's position toward the French Revolution was not a departure from his earlier convictions, but the culmination of a consistency in the primary principles of the Natural Law applied to political sovereignty. The powerful revival of interest in the Natural Law is strong evidence of the need for a greater knowledge of Burke, whose Natural Law principles vitalize the moral cohesion for Western civilization. To restore faith in man as an end in himself, as a distinctly personal creature, contemporary man must learn Burke's great principle that the political sovereign is subject to the law, that God only is the ultimate sovereign.
