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Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 1584771372
Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
Author : Thomas A. Street
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781893122253
Author : W. J. Waluchow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2006-12-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139462814
In this study, W. J. Waluchow argues that debates between defenders and critics of constitutional bills of rights presuppose that constitutions are more or less rigid entities. Within such a conception, constitutions aspire to establish stable, fixed points of agreement and pre-commitment, which defenders consider to be possible and desirable, while critics deem impossible and undesirable. Drawing on reflections about the nature of law, constitutions, the common law, and what it is to be a democratic representative, Waluchow urges a different theory of bills of rights that is flexible and adaptable. Adopting such a theory enables one not only to answer to critics' most serious challenges, but also to appreciate the role that a bill of rights, interpreted and enforced by unelected judges, can sensibly play in a constitutional democracy.
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Common law
ISBN :
Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1921
Category : History
ISBN :
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Author : Karl N. Llewellyn
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1610273001
Author : Douglas E. Edlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521176156
In this book, legal scholars, philosophers, historians, and political scientists from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the common law through three of its classic themes: rules, reasoning, and constitutionalism. Their essays, specially commissioned for this volume, provide an opportunity for thinkers from different jurisdictions and disciplines to talk to each other and to their wider audience within and beyond the common law world. This book allows scholars and students to consider how these themes and concepts relate to one another. It will initiate and sustain a more inclusive and well-informed theoretical discussion of the common law's method, process, and structure. It will be valuable to lawyers, philosophers, political scientists, and historians interested in constitutional law, comparative law, judicial process, legal theory, law and society, legal history, separation of powers, democratic theory, political philosophy, the courts, and the relationship of the common law tradition to other legal systems of the world.
Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1528785878
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Author : Allan C. Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139444934
This book offers a radical challenge to accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history. Offering original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book shows that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context; tradition and transformation are locked in a mutually reinforcing but thoroughly contingent embrace. In contrast to the dewy-eyed offerings of much contemporary work, it demonstrates that, like life, law is an organic process (i.e., events are the products of functional and localized causes) rather than a miraculous one (i.e., events are the result of some grand plan or intervention). In short, common law is a perpetual work-in-progress - evanescent, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalising, and bottom-up.
Author : Manlio Bellomo
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0813208149
A broad history of the western European legal tradition. Bellomo discusses the great jurists who gave common law its intellectual vigor as well as the humanist jurists of the period.