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Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law: Blackstone's Legacy to America

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Stacey's book is a text from a series designed by evangelical Christians. I wouldn't have ordered it if I had known that, but this small book may still have some use as a brief introduction to Blackstone. It serves up an ideological view of the man the right-wingers are adopting as a founding father for their take on the Constitution. Read with a great grain of salt. Less than 100 pages of text.

If you've ever actually read Blackstone, you'd have to ask yourself what Stacey was drinking when he wrote this mess.

I want to thank Mr. Kremer for altering me to ACW press. Put ACW Press in google and you get christianbooks.com, a press with a strange (and apparently right wing book) list. [When I went to the site, they were peddling a book about Saddam Hussein being an evil-doer extraordinaire--even if true, what does that have to do with Christianity? Nothing, of course--it's just right-wing justification for Bush's disastrous unneccessary war.]

I've never read this book (yet, I plan to), but I will just say that Dr. Stacey is a brilliant proffessor and knows his stuff.