The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law 在线电子书 图书标签: 法学 History law Pilon Law Dr
发表于2024-11-10
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Having written extensively on various aspects of the American constitutional order, Edward S Corwin is considered a leading constitutional scholar of the twentieth century. Alpheus Mason described Corwin's writings as 'sources of learning and understanding - hallmarks to emulate and revere'. "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law" is of unique value in connecting the Western European experience - from the classical world, the Middle Ages, and the seventeenth-century thought of Coke and Locke - to the American founding. This renowned work provides a bold and accurate outline of the tradition behind the 'higher law' of the United States and places in historical context the political philosophy underlying the US Declaration of Independence and Constitution. This volume addresses questions such as: where did the idea of a 'higher law' originate? how has it been able to survive and in what transformations? what special forms of it are of particular interest for historians and political theorists? and; how was it brought to America and wrought into the American system of government? As Clinton Rossiter notes in his prefatory note, 'No one can come away from reading ("Higher Law") without realizing how much we in America are part of Western civilization. The men we meet in the pages of this essay - Demosthenes, Sophocles, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Ulpian, Gaius, John of Salisbury, Isidore of Seville, St. Thomas Aquinas, Bracton, Fortescue, Coke, Grotius, Newton, Hooker, Pufendorf, Locke, Blackstone - all insisted that the laws by which men live can and should be the 'embodiment of essential and unchanging justice', and we may salute them respectfully as founding fathers of our experiment in ordered liberty'. In this volume Corwin demonstrates how the concept of a higher law developed and was understood by the leading thinkers of the American Revolutionary period as well as how the ideal of the higher law impacted the creation of the American Constitution. Students, scholars, and general interested readers of constitutional law and political theory will find inspiration in the pages of "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law".
美国宪法的“高级法”背景不在美国,它是根植于源远流长的西方政治与法治传统,特别是英国的普通法传统。作者运用了大量的材料与文献,向我们揭示了西方自然法传统与自然权利的演变,洛克的理论论述,柯克的据法抗争等。最为重要的是作者想找到美国违宪审查制度的早期理论与实...
评分为了确保法律是正义的,一切法律都必须由自由选举产生的、代表人民的、作为国家最高权力机关的立法机关来制订,而且这些法律必须合乎自然法的普世原则,即尊重基本的(天赋)人权。 法治与某种超验的法律价值观有关。在古代,这种超验的法律价值观存在於神和自然正义之中;在现...
评分为了确保法律是正义的,一切法律都必须由自由选举产生的、代表人民的、作为国家最高权力机关的立法机关来制订,而且这些法律必须合乎自然法的普世原则,即尊重基本的(天赋)人权。 法治与某种超验的法律价值观有关。在古代,这种超验的法律价值观存在於神和自然正义之中;在现...
评分一本精简明晰的思想史(?严格说是观念史吧)的著作。讲美国宪法背后的精神信仰直接推到了古希腊古罗马去了。 现代美国给人的憧憬就是所以的自由民主(还平不平等就不知道了)。但文明自觉者除了临渊羡鱼外,更主要还是要吸收人家自由民主的制度设计。但是不好意思这本小书偏又...
评分美国宪法的“高级法”背景不在美国,它是根植于源远流长的西方政治与法治传统,特别是英国的普通法传统。作者运用了大量的材料与文献,向我们揭示了西方自然法传统与自然权利的演变,洛克的理论论述,柯克的据法抗争等。最为重要的是作者想找到美国违宪审查制度的早期理论与实...
The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024