Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime—Commentaries is at last fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise intellectual history of the time, illustrating all the elegance, social values, and internal contradictions of the Age of Reason.
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- The Spirit of Laws (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)) by Charles de Secondat on 7 pages
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- Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Philosophical Dictionary (Penguin Classics) by Francois Voltaire on page 30, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on page 33, page 178, and Back Matter
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- Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism by James R. Stoner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson (Constitutionalism and Democracy) by David N. Mayer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by E. J. Clery in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hers, His, And Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas by Jean A. Stuntz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation by Professor Charles A. Miller on page 182, and Back Matter
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