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Perhaps the most important legal treatise ever written in the English language, Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) was the first effort to consolidate English common law into a unified and rational system. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America.
The Commentaries is divided into four books. The first, deals with what Blackstone called “the rights of persons,” what a modern lawyer would call constitutional law, the legal structure of government. Book II describes the law of property. Book III analyzes civil procedure and remedies. The last book is devoted to criminal law and procedure.
Now regarded as a literary, as well as a legal classic, Blackstone’s Commentaries brilliantly laid out the system of English law in the mid-eighteenth century, demonstrating that as a system of justice, it was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Ironically, the work also revealed to the colonists the insufficiency of the system and became a model for the legal system of the fledgling American nation in 1789.
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Thank you so much for providing not only the founding documents of our nation, but the foundations for those documents as well – the biographies, the prior documents and the historical context that show the wisdom of our founders, and how it is based on everlasting principles.
I am looking forward to receiving Vol ! of ‘Commentaries.’ In this litigious world and out of countrol, bloated bureaucracies prowlig about looking for whom they may devour, I have represented myself in Federal Court, Superior Court, and Small Claims Court and done quite well. If for no other reason ‘Commentarties’ have given me much confidence in the direction and efficacy of my arguments. It will be good to have this valuable work close at hand.
This may seem a foolish question. How many pages total for “Commentaries on the Laws of England”. I copied The Essential Federalist Papers, all 250+pages. I don’t care for reading off computer…..
I do believe the total is around 2,000 pages total. It’s quite an extensive work. At some point we’ll summarize it and provide an “Essential” guide.
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