# Thomas Paine Versus Edmund Burke, Part 7

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/thomas-paine-versus-edmund-burke-part-7>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** January 18, 2017

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George H. Smith explains Thomas Paine’s constitutional theory and why Paine believed that Britain had no constitution.

[Originally published in essay form on June 6, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/thomas-paine-versus-edmund-burke-part-7)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._