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  The Burke view is about as relevant to today's democracies as wattle and daub is to modern housebuilding. Burke spoke at a time when land and wealth determined suffrage, constituencies were at the disposal of major landowners, and parliamentary representatives were the landowners' men (Burke was one such man). This was the narrow economic interest Burke served, and he sought to preserve the existing economic and political relations by opposing any extension of the franchise on the basis that us commoners were ignorant and couldn't be trusted not to do over our betters. Well, the popular genie's now out of the bottle, and its desire is for more democracy, not less.

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