Burke maintains that society and its institutions should be evaluated through the lens of historical context. He describes the creation of society as such: “the science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori” (61). Political institutions cannot be conceived theoretically where there observable and existing institutions that already exist. They are an inheritance and are rooted in historical circumstance; men are creatures of their time and place. Institutions are created from the past. Circumstances are critical because they call into consideration the past, which influences it, and the future, on which it will affect. Society cannot be understood