Legislator of the World

Writings on Codification, Law, and Education
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-820747-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 928 g

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 José 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bentham, Jeremy

Schofield, Philip

Harris, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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