Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book (eBook)

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

David Thomas Konig, Michael Zuckert (Herausgeber)

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2019
692 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19372-4 (ISBN)

Infos

David Thomas Konig is professor of law and professor emeritus of history at Washington University in St. Louis. Michael P. Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame University.

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As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson's notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson's searching mind.Jefferson's abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaking.Unlike the only previous edition of Jefferson's notebook, published in 1926, this edition features a verified text of Jefferson's entries and full annotation, including essential information on the authors and books he documents. In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction that places Jefferson's text in legal, historical, and biographical context.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color + 1 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
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• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Administration (probate law) • Admiralty Law • Admission (law) • Aggravation (law) • Alan Watson (legal scholar) • Attainder • Baron and feme • Bill of attainder • Book of Prophecies • Civil law (legal system) • Code of law • Coggs v Bernard • Commentaries on the Laws of England • Common Law • Common law copyright • commonplace book • constitutional law • Constitution of Sweden • Court of Chancery • Court of equity • Court of King's Bench (England) • Court of record • Courts of England and Wales • Covenant (law) • Creditor • deed • defendant • Delict (Scots law) • democracy in America • De rebus bellicis • divine law • Domesday Book • Duke of Norfolk's Case • Earl of Shaftesbury • ecclesiastical court • English law • English property law • Evidence (Law) • Ex post facto law • Eyre (legal term) • felony • Forfeiture (law) • habeas corpus • indictment • Institutes of the Lawes of England • Judgment debtor • Jurisdiction • Latrocinium • Law Book • Law French • Law of the United States • Law report • Legal Education • Legal History • Legal Practice • Legal proceeding • legal process • legal profession • Legal remedy • Legal Science • Legal separation • Legal treatise • Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales • Matthew Hale (jurist) • Nisi prius • Objection (law) • Oliver Cromwell • Operation of law • peine forte et dure • Petition of Right • Politique • popular sovereignty • power of attorney • praetor • Precedent • Prerogative writ • Pro se legal representation in the United States • Question of law • Quia Emptores • Remainder (law) • Rendition (law) • Restatements of the Law • Rule of Law • Scire facias • Sovereign court • Statute • Statute merchant • Statute of Uses • Statute of Wills • Statutes of Mortmain • Statutory Law • Sumptuary law • Tax • Testator • The History of England (Hume) • The Spirit of the Laws • V. • Vassal • Warranty • writ
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19372-X / 069119372X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19372-4 / 9780691193724