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Book Synopsis The Politics of the Ancient Constitution by : Glenn Burgess
Download or read book The Politics of the Ancient Constitution written by Glenn Burgess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1992-09-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of the Ancient Constitution is a close examination of the political ideas of common lawyers in early Stuart England, and includes important surveys of the ideas of Sir Edward Coke and John Selden. It provides an original interpretation of the lawyers' theory of the ancient constitution and on this basis it provides a novel interpretation of the basic structure of political thought and ideology in pre-Civil War England. In this way the book is able to make a substantial contribution to debates over the ideological origins of the English Revolution.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law by : J. G. A. Pocock
Download or read book The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.
Book Synopsis The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution by : Janelle Greenberg
Download or read book The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution written by Janelle Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with critical aspects of English historical, constitutional and political thought from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. In particular, the book is a study of the ways in which history could be deployed for all kinds of political purposes. The entire story of the historical construct of the "radical ancient constitution" is told, focusing on the ways in which rebels turned to important medieval sources including the so-called "Laws" of Edward the Confessor, in an effort to legitimize resistance, deposition and regicide.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Ancient Constitution by : Glenn Burgess
Download or read book The Politics of the Ancient Constitution written by Glenn Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the political ideas of common lawyers in early Stuart England and including surveys of the ideas of Sir Edward Coke and John Selden, the book interprets the lawyer's theory of ancient constitution and on this basis it provides an interpretation of the basic structure of thought and ideology in pre-Civil War England. In this way the book is able to make a contribution to debates over the ideological origins of the English Revolution.
Book Synopsis Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution by : Erin Rahne Kidwell
Download or read book Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution written by Erin Rahne Kidwell and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: xviii, 330 pp. The blending of myth and legal history evident in the body of literary and legal texts produced to debate the union proposals of James VI and I following the king's proclamation of them in 1604 illustrates the seamless nature of the legal and literary canons at a formative moment in the history of British-American constitutionalism. This case study focuses on one of the lesser known Union Tracts, George Saltern's 1605 Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine in conjunction with examples from various union tracts and contemporaneous works in British history, Calvin's Case and other judicial opinions, and works of British-American political thought to illustrate and evaluate the creative mix of mythical and historical elements present in the juridical historiography of the ancient constitution. King James's proposed 'restitution' of a realm which had in fact never previously existed in history-the unified realm of Great Britain-could only have been defended through such a blend of literary myth, history, and legal precedents. Furthermore, tracing the juridical historiography of ancient constitutionalism over the following centuries reveals the surprising extent to which ancient constitutionalist thought has continued to influence the development of British-American constitutionalism to the present day. The appendix includes a facsimile of George Saltern's Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine (1605). "Being immemorial, the Ancient Constitution could have no founding fathers, but needed fathers as ancient as could be found. Erin Kidwell traces them back beyond English into British history and beyond King Alfred to King Lear, King Arthur and Brutus of Troy. This is a valuable study in the mythology necessary to medieval and early modern constitutionalism and the political thought arising from it.--J.G.A. Pocock, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, author of The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law. "Kidwell's erudite discussion faces squarely the modern inability to take ancient constitutionalism seriously." --David J. Seipp, Professor of Law and Law Alumni Scholar, Boston University School of Law. ERIN RAHNE KIDWELL is the Curator of Legal History Collections at Georgetown Law Library. She teaches two legal history courses at Georgetown Law: British Legal History: from the Celts to the Industrial Age, 1-1890 CE, and Early American Legal History: From Settlement to Reconstruction 1600-1880, where she has also taught an introductory law and literature seminar. Kidwell was the academic advisor for the Fall 2015 exhibit Age of Lawyers: The Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She received her J.D. Cum Laude from Capital University Law School and her LL.M. and S.J.D. from Georgetown Law.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law by : J. G. A. Pocock
Download or read book The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Interpretations of Natural Law by : Benjamin Fletcher Wright
Download or read book American Interpretations of Natural Law written by Benjamin Fletcher Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of Independence is the preeminent example of natural law in American political thought it is the self-evident truth of American society.Benjamin Wright proposes that the decline of natural law as a guiding factor in American political behaviour is inevitable as America's democracy matures and broadens. What Wright also chronicled, inadvertently, was how the progressive critique of natural law has opened a rift between and among some of the ruling elites and large numbers of Americans who continue to accept it. Progressive elites who reject natural law do not share the same political culture as many of their fellow citizens.Wright's work is important because, as Leo Strauss and others have observed, the decline of natural law is a development that has not had a happy ending in other societies in the twentieth century. There is no reason to believe it will be different in the United States.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law by : J. G. A. Pocock
Download or read book The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis From Vienna to Chicago and Back by : Gerald Stourzh
Download or read book From Vienna to Chicago and Back written by Gerald Stourzh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.
Book Synopsis Crisis and Constitutionalism by : Benjamin Straumann
Download or read book Crisis and Constitutionalism written by Benjamin Straumann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis and fall of the Roman Republic spawned a tradition of political thought that sought to evade the Republic's fate--despotism. Thinkers from Cicero to Bodin, Montesquieu, and the American Founders saw constitutionalism, not virtue, as the remedy. This study traces Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the Revolutionary Era.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law by : J. G. A. Pocock
Download or read book The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Download or read book Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's understanding of government and remain his most important works of political philosophy. On the Commonwealth survives only in part, and On the Laws was never completed. The new edition of this volume has been revised throughout to take account of recent scholarship, and features a new introduction, a new bibliography, a chronological table and a biographical index. James E. G. Zetzel offers a scholarly reconstruction of the fragments of On the Commonwealth and a masterly translation of both dialogues. The texts are further supported by notes and synopsis, designed to assist students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics.
Book Synopsis The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study by : Charles de Secondat
Download or read book The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study written by Charles de Secondat and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study,' readers are presented with a pivotal exploration of political theory through a diverse array of essays that delve into the nature, principles, and applications of laws across societies. This anthology embodies a rich tapestry of literary styles, from analytical prose to persuasive rhetoric, highlighting the versatility and depth of political thought. The emphasis on the separation of powers, alongside a keen analysis of the relationship between laws and factors like climate, religion, and economy, showcases the complexity and relevance of the works included. Through these essays, the collection paints a comprehensive picture of the legislative nuances that govern human interaction and societal development. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, stands as a monumental figure in the Enlightenment period, bringing together a confluence of ideas that have shaped the discourse on governance and liberty. His contributions, resonating through the ages, capture the essence of enlightenment thinking, advocating for political freedom and the refinement of civil society. Montesquieus influence extends beyond his time, inspiring revolutions and informing constitutional designs worldwide. Aligning with various historical, cultural, and literary movements, this collection underscores the evolution of political philosophy. 'The Spirit of the Laws: Political Study' is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the foundations of modern political systems. It offers readers a unique intersection of historical significance and contemporary relevance, inviting them into an enlightened dialogue on governance and law. This anthology is not only a testament to Montesquieus legacy but also a gateway to understanding the intricate balance of power that shapes societies. Scholars, students, and enthusiasts of political science will find in these pages a profound educational tool and a source of endless insight.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought by : Mark Goldie
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought written by Mark Goldie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Book Synopsis A Government of Laws by : Ellis Sandoz
Download or read book A Government of Laws written by Ellis Sandoz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Government of Laws, which includes a new preface, Ellis Sandoz re-evaluates the traditional understanding of the philosophic and intellectual background of the American founding. Through an exhaustive assessment of Renaissance, medieval, and ancient political philosophy, he shows that the founding fathers were consciously and explicitly seeking to create a political order that would meet the demands of human nature and society. This rigorous and searching analysis of the sources of political and constitutional theory generates an original and provocative approach to American thought and experience.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law by : John Greville Agard Pocock
Download or read book The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law written by John Greville Agard Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Roots of Liberty by : Ellis Sandoz
Download or read book The Roots of Liberty written by Ellis Sandoz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contribution to the ongoing debate over the origins of constitutionalism and free government, Sandoz brings together a selection of scholars to present a reevaluation of the place of Magna Carta and Ancient Constitution in the tradition of Anglo-American liberty and rule of law.
