Common law and liberal theory : Coke, Hobbes, and the origins of American constitutionalism / James R. Stoner, Jr.
1992
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Author
Title
Common law and liberal theory : Coke, Hobbes, and the origins of American constitutionalism / James R. Stoner, Jr.
Published
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
KD671 .S76 1992
ISBN
0700605320 (alk. paper) :
Description
viii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24848497
Note
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Harvard University, 1987)
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
Pt. 1
The Common Law Judgment of Sir Edward Coke
11
1Coke's Life and Law
13
2Constitution, King, and Parliament
27
3Doctor Bonham's Case and Lawyers' History
48
Pt. 2
The Sovereign Reason of Thomas Hobbes
69
4The Scope of Science and the Focus of Law
71
5The Original Constitution of Right
86
6From General Science to Singular Case
103
7The Dialogue and Common Law
116
Pt. 3
Inventing Constitutional Prudence
135
8The Revolutionary Constitutionalism of John Locke
137
9Montesquieu's Liberal Spirit
152
10Blackstone's Liberalized Common Law
162
Pt. 4
Recovering Constitution as Law
177
11Behind the "Facts Submitted to a Candid World": Constitutional Arguments for Independence
179
12Constitutionalism and Judging in The Federalist
197
13Not "Builders of Babel": Legislating a Constitution
212
Conclusion
223
Appendix I. Subtitles in IV Institutes, Chapter One, "Of the High and Most Honourable Court of Parliament"
227
Appendix II. Outline of Coke's Opinion in Doctor Bonham's Case
229
Notes
233
Selected Bibliography
267
Index
277