The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D.The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - Всего страниц: 1429 Reprint of the rare first edition. Contains important early commentaries on the U.S. Constitution by one of the most influential delegates to the Federal Constitutional Convention and one of the six founding fathers who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, later an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Works are comprised mostly of lectures delivered in 1790-1791 at the College of Philadelphia. They cover several aspects of public and private law, such as the common law, general principles of the law of nations and the law of nature, the U.S. Constitution, crime, obligations and property. The texts of several important speeches given at the Federal Convention and his rousing oration celebrating Pennsylvania's adoption of the Constitution on July 4, 1788 are also included. Many of these pieces are important early commentaries on the Constitution. Three volumes. |
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... nations and men . Cicero in- forms us , that when he was a boy , the laws of the twelve tables were learned ut necessarium carmen , " as a piece of composition at once necessary and entertaining . The celebrated legislator of the ...
... nations and men . Cicero in- forms us , that when he was a boy , the laws of the twelve tables were learned ut necessarium carmen , " as a piece of composition at once necessary and entertaining . The celebrated legislator of the ...
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... law in the United States , 3 CHAPTER II . Of the general principles of law and obligation , 55 CHAPTER III . Of the law of nature , 107 CHAPTER IV . Of the law of nations , 145 CHAPTER V. Of municipal law , 179 CHAPTER VI . Of man , as ...
... law in the United States , 3 CHAPTER II . Of the general principles of law and obligation , 55 CHAPTER III . Of the law of nature , 107 CHAPTER IV . Of the law of nations , 145 CHAPTER V. Of municipal law , 179 CHAPTER VI . Of man , as ...
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... nations , 359 CHAPTER X. Of government , 383 CHAPTER XI . Comparison of the constitution of the United States , with that of Great Britain , 425 LECTURES ON LAW , DELIVERED IN THE COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA xvi CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME .
... nations , 359 CHAPTER X. Of government , 383 CHAPTER XI . Comparison of the constitution of the United States , with that of Great Britain , 425 LECTURES ON LAW , DELIVERED IN THE COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA xvi CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME .
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... nations , should not be ascribed solely to their excellence in science and in government . With regard to these , other nations , he thinks , and particu- larly that of which he was writing the history , were entitled to a reputation ...
... nations , should not be ascribed solely to their excellence in science and in government . With regard to these , other nations , he thinks , and particu- larly that of which he was writing the history , were entitled to a reputation ...
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... law , springing warm and spontaneous from the manners of the people — Law should be studied and taught as a historical science . The eloquent Rousseau complains , that the origin of nations is much concealed by the darkness or the ...
... law , springing warm and spontaneous from the manners of the people — Law should be studied and taught as a historical science . The eloquent Rousseau complains , that the origin of nations is much concealed by the darkness or the ...
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CHAPTER VI | 229 |
CHAPTER VII | 283 |
CHAPTER VIII | 319 |
CHAPTER X | 383 |
CHAPTER XI | 425 |
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Стр. 56 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Стр. 56 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Стр. 113 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Стр. 452 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Стр. 259 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Стр. 295 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Стр. 51 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Стр. 412 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Стр. 93 - It will be sufficient to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses.