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バークは名誉革命(Glorious Revolution)と清教徒革命から受け継いだ伝統である権利を重視する
名誉革命後はToleration Act 1689によって英国国教会以外の宗派が認められている(カトリックは除外)

カトリック国王を放逐した名誉革命は無血と称されるが、1642–1651の内戦に比べればはるかにマシだっただけの話しで無血ではないクーデターだった（少数派だが侵略とする説もある）

従って清教徒やその他のプロテスタント、特に長老教会はイギリス国内で合法化されており、アメリカの独立革命との直接関係があるとの主張は矛盾する
もし宗教弾圧が革命の原因とするなら、カトリックが独立革命をおこさねばならないが、史実に反する

保守主義の父とされるバークは共産党、西部スクールの共産シンパの国家社会主義者の言うところの新自由主義者のような主張をしている

Adam Smith and Edmund Burke
ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=poroi
Although the Scots philosopher Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) found few insightful readers in
England before the l790s, Smith himself noted that among what early readers he had the Anglo-Irish
Whig Member of Parliament Edmund. Burke stood out (Tribe 1984; Teichgraber, 1985). Smith informed
a confidant that Burke “is the only man I ever knew who, without communication, thought on economic
subjects exactly as I”

They became correspondents and friends. But
while Smith made it clear that government support should be extended in
hard times to unemployed workers, who have a right to expect it, Burke
flatly denied it. “Labor,” he wrote in l795, “is a commodity and as such an
article of trade” (Burke, 1795, in Kramnick, 1999, 200). Trade, Burke
declared, is none of government’s business under any circumstances. “Of all
things,” he wrote, “an indiscreet tampering with the trade of provisions is the
most dangerous and … always worst … in the time of scarcity” (Burke,
1795, in Kramnick, 1999, 195).

If anyone deserves relief it is not those who
are able to work but in hard times can’t find it. It is those, and only those,
who are too sick, infirm, young, or old to work at all. They do indeed fall
under our Christian duty to extend charity to the poor (Burke, 1795, in
Kramnick 203). But the deserving poor, as they came to be called, are
objects of our charity only insofar as we, and they, are private persons.
Government, whose office to “regulate our tempers” by “timely coercion,”
should stay out of it. “The people maintain [the government], not they the
people” (Burke, 1795, in Kramnick, 195)

バークの思想背景は経済的には小さな政府であり、教会も含めた民間の活動の自由は
保証し政府は軍事・外交以外の余計な事はしないようにアダム・スミスを強く諌め商業活動に
政府が関与すべきでないと明言している