A Few Lectures on Natural Law
Author: Henry St. George Tucker
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 372
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 372
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033267318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry George St Tucker
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-19
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781357451936
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Author: Henry St George Tucker
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9781230222035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...consent, from whence this obligation arises: when he became a member of the society, he consented, either expressly or tacitly, that he would in all instances conform himself to what should be the sense of the greater part of that society, to which he joins himself, so as to become a member of it. "Where the members of a society are equally divided in their opinions upon any point; there is no more weight of reason or of equity on one side than there is on the other. No business therefore can be done: and consequently all things must, upon such an equality of votes, continue in the same state, that they were in before, without having any change made in them. For this reason, says Grotius, where judges are equally divided in their opinions, as to acquitting or condemning a criminal, such criminal is acquitted. And in like manner, where they are equally divided upon a question of property, the possessor keeps the thing in dispute." "But though naturally the business of the society must stop, where the society is equally divided in opinion; yet by mutual agreement this case may be provided for several ways. Some one member of their blessings like the dew of heaven, upon the happy people who enjoy the good fortune of sitting under. their benign and salutary influence. But even when united, they are distinct exertions of the sovereign power; and when distributed into different branches they nevertheless are but parts of the supreme authority, constituting altogether but one great whole. Such then, young gentlemen, I take to be the origin of government: and it would next be an object of amusing speculation, to trace, as far as recorded history and the annals of the human family will enable us, its progress from the earliest...
Author: Stuart Banner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0197556493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The law of nature -- The common law -- The adoption of written constitutions -- The separation of law and religion -- The explosion in law publishing -- The two-sidedness of natural law -- The decline of natural law and custom --Substitutes for natural law -- Echoes of natural law.
Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0192884352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History of Universities XXXV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
Author: Benjamin Fletcher Wright
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1351532650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Steven J. Macias
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1498519474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work examines the intellectual motivations behind the concept of “legal science”—the first coherent American jurisprudential movement after Independence. Drawing mainly upon public, but also private, sources, this book considers the goals of the bar’s professional leaders who were most adamant and deliberate in setting out their visions of legal science. It argues that these legal scientists viewed the realm of law as the means through which they could express their hopes and fears associated with the social and cultural promises and perils of the early republic. Law, perhaps more so than literature or even the natural sciences, provided the surest path to both national stability and international acclaim. While legal science yielded the methodological tools needed to achieve these lofty goals, its naturalistic foundations, more importantly, were at least partly responsible for the grand impulses in the first place. This book first considers the content of legal science and then explores its application by several of the most articulate legal scientists working and writing in the early republic.