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Author : Joseph Plescia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572920040
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Bill of Rights and Roman Law written by Joseph Plescia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Twelve Tables written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the legislation that formed the basis of Roman law - The Laws of the Twelve Tables. These laws, formally promulgated in 449 BC, consolidated earlier traditions and established enduring rights and duties of Roman citizens. The Tables were created in response to agitation by the plebeian class, who had previously been excluded from the higher benefits of the Republic. Despite previously being unwritten and exclusively interpreted by upper-class priests, the Tables became highly regarded and formed the basis of Roman law for a thousand years. This comprehensive sequence of definitions of private rights and procedures, although highly specific and diverse, provided a foundation for the enduring legal system of the Roman Empire.
Author : Susan Ford Wiltshire
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124643
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights written by Susan Ford Wiltshire and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle that a purpose of government is to protect the individual rights and minority opinions of its citizens is a recent idea in human history. A doctrine of human rights could never have evolved, however, if the ancient Athenians had not invented the revolutionary idea that human beings are capable of governing themselves and if the ancient Romans had not created their elaborate system of law. Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law. Growing out of Greek political thought, especially that of Aristotle, natural law became a major tenet of Stoic philosophy during the Hellenistic age and later became attached to Roman legal doctrine. It underwent several transformations during the Middle Ages on the Continent and in England, especially in the thought of John Locke, before it came to justify a theory of natural rights, claimed by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as the basis of the "unalienable rights" of Americans. Amendment by amendment, Wiltshire assesses in detail the ancient parallels for the twenty-odd provisions of the Bill of Rights. She does not claim that it is directly influenced by Greek and Roman political practice. Rather, she examines classical efforts toward assuring such guarantees as freedom of speech, religious toleration, and trial by jury. Present in the ancient world, too, were early experiments in limiting search and seizure, the billeting of soldiers, and the right to bear arms. Wiltshire concludes that while the idea of individual rights evolved later than classical antiquity, the civic infrastructure supporting such rights in the United States is preeminently a legacy from ancient Greece and Rome. In the era celebrating the Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights reminds us once again that the idea of ensuring human rights has a long history, one as tenuous but as enduring as the story of human freedom itself.
Author : Irving Brant
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bill of Rights; Its Origin and Meaning written by Irving Brant and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1965 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical notes": pages 527-544.
Author : Neil H. Cogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199324212
Total Pages : 1450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Complete Bill of Rights written by Neil H. Cogan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. Now in its second edition, The Complete Bill of Rights contains double the content featured in the first edition. This new edition includes all the background texts for the origins and debate of the ratification of the Bill of Rights and presents them clause by clause in a complete, accurate, and accessible format. Arranged in chronological order, the work presents each clause in its finished form, and traces its development from its proposal through drafting through adoption. Cogan presents every draft of the text and every documentary source, including state convention proposals, state, colonial, and English constitutional texts, sources in caselaw and treatises, and State and Colonial statutory and decisional law. He includes data from diaries and correspondence, pamphlets and newspapers, as well as the Congressional and State debates, including the correspondence of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams among many others who debated the issues that the Supreme Court considers law today. The book also contains each version of the drafts from the manuscript collections of the National Archives and Library of Congress. The result is the most detailed and useful record of the debate over the Bill of Rights available. This first new edition since 1997 substantially expands on the previous edition, providing the same invaluable texts for two fundamental protections of liberty found in the Constitution of 1789 (though not in the Bill of Rights): the protections under habeas corpus and the privileges and immunities clauses. Each chapter expands the background discussion of rights, and provides pertinent texts in contemporary legal dictionaries to meet the increasing interest of federal and state courts in additional sources for interpretation. The second edition also provides a chapter-by-chapter discussion of rights by treatise and abridgement writers in addition to Blackstone. Finally, all margin notes and footnotes in the dictionaries and treatises are included, so the reader has access to the totality of the original statues and case law upon which the drafters relied. The Complete Bill of Rights is the only comprehensive collection of texts essential to understanding the Bill of Rights. Organized in an accessible and practical manner, it is an invaluable tool for law students, judges, lawyers, and law clerks, as well as scholars of the law, history, and political science.
Author : Samuel S. Wyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Struggle for Bill of Rights written by Samuel S. Wyer and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Alexander Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code written by William Alexander Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Embodying the Institutes of Gaius and the Institutes of Justinian, tr. into English by J. Ashton Cross."--T.p.
Author : Thomas Tandy Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book The Bill of Rights written by Thomas Tandy Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bill of Rights. The Amendments, 1-10, Over 250 Supreme Court cases. Essays on The Issues: Academic Freedom, Freedom of Assembly & association, Automobile searches, Bad tendency test, Bail, Right to birth control, Blasphemy, Capital punishment, Censorship, Chilling effect, Civil rights and liberties, Clear and present danger test, Commerce clause, Commercial speech, Comstock Act, Conscientious objection, Freedom of contract, Right to counsel, Cruel and unusual punishment, Double jeopardy, Procedural due process, Substantive due process, Elastic clause, Espionage Acts, Exclusionary rule, First Amendment absolutism, balancing, & speech tests, Flag desecration, Gag order, Gay & lesbian rights, Grand jury, Hatch Act, Hate crimes, Hicklin rule, Indian Bill of Rights, Indigent criminal defendants, Japanese American relocation, Judicial scrutiny, Trial by jury, Libel, Loyalty oaths, Miranda rights, Miscegenation laws, Natural law, Newsroom searches, Nuremberg Files, Obscenity & pornography, Right of petition, Preferred freedoms doctrine, Presumption of innocence, Preventive detention, Prior restraint, Right of privacy, Privileges & immunities, Probable cause, Property rights, Public forum doctrine, Public use doctrine, Released time, Establishment of religion, Freedom of religion, School prayer, Search & seizue, Search warrent requirement, Sedition Act of 1798, Seditious libel, Immunity against self-incrimination, Silver platter doctrine, Smith Act, Freedom of speech & press, Speedy trial, States' rights, Stop & frisk rule, Symbolic speech, Takings clause, Time, place & manner regulations, Unprotected speech, Confrontation of witnesses, and Zoning.
Author : Linda R Monk
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316415606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Bill of Rights written by Linda R Monk and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens. In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition to the Supreme Court expanded the right to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest of the Vietnam War established free speech rights for students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for privacy after police entered his bedroom unlawfully; Suzette Kelo, a nurse who opposed the city's takeover of her working-class neighborhood; and Simon Tam, a millennial whose 10-year trademark battle for his band "The Slants" ended in a unanimous Supreme Court victory. Such people prove that, in the words of Judge Learned Hand, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court, can save it." Exploring the history, scope, and meaning of the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and extended new rights of equality to all-The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide is a powerful examination of the values that define American life and the tools that every citizen needs. Winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, its highest honor for media about the law.
Author : Edward Dumbauld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Bill of Rights and what it Means Today written by Edward Dumbauld and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Plescia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bill of Rights and Roman Law written by Joseph Plescia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. E. Spruit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Roman Law at the Crossroads written by J. E. Spruit and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Law is part of Roman-Dutch law and therefore a part of the legal history of South Africa. What is its relevance today, and should it be taught at African law schools? These questions are addressed in the papers in this book.
Author : Commission to Study the Organization of Peace. Committee on Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Draft International Bill of Human Rights written by Commission to Study the Organization of Peace. Committee on Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Warwick Buckland
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Roman Law and Common Law written by William Warwick Buckland and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1965 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204883
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition written by Clifford Ando and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools—most prominently analogy and fiction—used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought. In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. Despite the prominence accorded public and international law in legal theory, it was civil law that provided conceptual resources to those other fields in the Roman tradition. Ultimately it was the civil law's implication in systems of domination outside its own narrow sphere that opened the door to its own subversion. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. As a result, forms of domination once exercised by Romans over others were inscribed in the workings of law at Rome, henceforth to be exercised by the Romans over themselves.
Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty written by Roscoe Pound and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty IN his recent book on the Supreme Court, the late Mr. Justice Jackson tells us that in Great Britain to Oh serve civil liberties is good politics and to transgress the rights of individuals or the minority is bad politics. He adds: In the United States I cannot say that this is so. Hence he concludes that the Supreme Court must have the support Of a vigorous and enlightened public Opinion if it is to uphold civil liberties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Albert Hutchinson Putney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Introduction to the study of law. Legal history written by Albert Hutchinson Putney and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
