"Legislator of the world" : writings on codification, law and education

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"Legislator of the world" : writings on codification, law and education

edited by Philip Schofield and Jonathan Harris

(The collected works of Jeremy Bentham, . Principles of legislation)

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Bentham's central concern during the 1810s and 1820s was with the codification of the law. Rejecting both the common law and the historical approach to codification, he argued that a code of law should be based on a rigorous logical analysis of the categories of human action, and that each enactment should be followed by the reasons which justified it. Such an `all-comprehensive' code containing an `interwoven rationale' would signal a new era in legislation. Once one state had adopted such a code, other states would be obliged to follow its example, and Bentham would become in effect 'legislator of the world'. Bentham attempted to persuade legislative authorities in the United States of America, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Greece, South and Central America, and elsewhere, to invite him to draft a code of law for them. The works presented in this volume record in fascinating detail Bentham's dealings with such eminent figures as James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Emperor Alexander I, Prince Adam Czartoryski, Alexander Mavrokordatos, Bernadino Rivadavia, and Jose del Valle. The production of a methodology for codification ranks as one of Bentham's outstanding theoretical achievements. Through the materials presented in this volume he emerges as a seminal figure in the development of liberalism throughout Europe and America in the early nineteenth century.

目次

  • Editorial Introduction
  • Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction: Including Correspondence with the Russian Emperor and Divers Constituted Authorities in the American United States
  • First Lines of a Proposed Code of Law for any Nation Compleat and Rationalized Codification Proposal, Addressed by Jeremy Bentham to all Nations Professing Liberal Opinions
  • Collations
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA39082051
  • ISBN
    • 9780198207474
  • LCCN
    99198145
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    engfrespagrc
  • 出版地
    Oxford,New York ; Tokyo
  • ページ数/冊数
    lviii, 450 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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