Liberty Under Law

Author : William M. Wiecek
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Under Law written by William M. Wiecek and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-hundredth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and the intense debates surrounding the recent nominees to the Supreme Court have refocused attention on one of the most fundamental documents in U.S. history—and on the judges who settle disputed over its interpretation. Liberty under Law is a concise and readable history of the U.S. Supreme Court, from its antecedents in colonial and British legal tradition to the present, William M. Wiecek surveys the impact of the Court's power of judicial review on important aspects of the national's political, economic, and social life. The author highlights important decisions on issues that range from the scope and legitimacy of judicial review itself to civil rights, censorship, the rights of privacy, seperation of church and state, and the powers of the President and Congress to conduct foreign affairs.

Author : Harry Potter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178327011X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Liberty and the Constitution written by Harry Potter and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout English history the rule of law and the preservation of liberty have been inseparable, and both are intrinsic to England's constitution. This accessible and entertaining history traces the growth of the law from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It shows how the law evolved from a means of ensuring order and limiting feuds to become a supremely sophisticated dispenser of justice and the primary guardian of civil liberties. This development owed much to the English kings and their judiciary, who, in the twelfth century, forged a unified system of law - predating that of any other European country - from almost wholly Anglo-Saxon elements. Yet by the seventeenth century this royal offspring - Oedipus Lex it could be called - was capable of regicide. Since then the law has had a somewhat fractious relationship with that institution upon which the regal mantle of supreme power descended, Parliament. This book tells the story of the common law not merely by describing major developments but by concentrating on prominent personalities and decisive cases relating to the constitution, criminal jurisprudence, and civil liberties. It investigates the great constitutional conflicts, the rise of advocacy, and curious and important cases relating to slavery, insanity, obscenity, cannibalism, the death penalty, and miscarriages of justice. The book concludes by examining the extension of the law into the prosecution of war criminals and protection of universal human rights and the threats posed by over-reaction to national emergencies and terrorism. Devoid of jargon and replete with good stories, Law, Liberty and the Constitution represents a new approach to the telling of legal history and will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the common law - the spinal cord of the English body politic. Harry Potter is a former fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a practising barrister specialising in criminal defence. He has authored books on the death penalty and Scottish history and wrote and presented an award-winning series on the history of the common law for the BBC.

Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Works written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Howard Taft
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Under Law written by William Howard Taft and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1922 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Phillip Reid
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226708966
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.

Author : William M. Wiecek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801835957
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Under Law written by William M. Wiecek and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty under Law is a concise and readable history of the U.S. Supreme Court, from its antecedents in colonial and British legal tradition to the present.

Author : David N. Mayer
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1935308408
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty of Contract written by David N. Mayer and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of the liberty of contract and shows how this right has been continuously diminished by court decisions and by our country's growing regulatory and welfare state.

Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Civil Liberty and Self-government written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emer de Vattel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Nations written by Emer de Vattel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burk Parsons
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781596382022
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Do We Have Creeds? written by Burk Parsons and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pluralist society is wrong! Everyone's beliefs are not equally valid - truth is not down to who is the biggest bully! Creeds give direction, unity, and fellowship - and show the world what we believe.