Ancient Law Illustrated edition by Sir Henry Sumner Maine Professional Technical eBooks
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This book is an illustrated version of the original Ancient Law by Sir Henry Sumner Maine. “No one who is interested in the growth of human ideas or the origins of human society can afford to neglect Maine's Ancient Law. Published some fifty-six years ago it immediately took rank as a classic, and its epoch-making influence may not unfitly be compared to that exercised by Darwin's Origin of Species. The revolution effected by the latter in the study of biology was hardly more remarkable than that effected by Maine's brilliant treatise in the study of early institutions. Well does one of Maine's latest and most learned commentators say of his work that "he did nothing less than create the natural history of law." This is only another way of saying that he demonstrated that our legal conceptions—using that term in its largest sense to include social and political institutions—are as much the product of historical development as biological organisms are the outcome of evolution. This was a new departure, inasmuch as the school of jurists, represented by Bentham and Austin, and of political philosophers, headed by Hobbes, Locke, and their nineteenth-century disciples, had approached the study of law and political society almost entirely from an unhistoric point of view and had substituted dogmatism for historical investigation.”
Ancient Law Illustrated edition by Sir Henry Sumner Maine Professional Technical eBooks
PACKED and more. Intricate explanations that require reader's intense attention--but "it's there," if your journey to it is a bit convoluted. From a lifetime of study and learning by a learned man of substance. The main reference text for a Berkeley professor's class. Not a fast read, but an informative one if time is taken. The language is generally elevated-1800s, but with some effort it can be handled. Usually. A piece of work.Product details
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Ancient Law Illustrated edition by Sir Henry Sumner Maine Professional Technical eBooks Reviews
First published in 1861. Contents include Ancient codes; legal fictions; law of nature and equity; modern history of the law of nature; primitive society and ancient law; early historyof testamentary succession; ancient ideas respecting wills and succession; early history of property; early history of contract; early history of crime and delict. Besides Greece and Rome, Maine examines the laws of India and Teutonic codes.
This book should be mandatory reading for any history classes, law studies and political science curricula.
Professor Maine (of Cambridge) wrote this treatise in 1867. It is a documentation of how ancient laws (especially from ancient Greece and Rome) have influenced our modern societies and systems of law.
One of the most illuminating chapters contains his brilliant analysis of the American system of government just after the civil war.
Professor Maine points out that the US system of government is based almost entirely on Roman Law. Many of the important ideas in our seminal documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, derive from the Roman "Jus Gentium." [The "law" of the People] The Jus Gentium was the law which Rome used to rule over its empire. It was designed to guarantee certain rights and freedoms to the people of the empire, notwithstanding their diverse cultural, economic and religious differences.
Prof. Maine points out that just as the Romans ruled over the diverse nations and cultures, of the ancient world, by imposing the Jus Gentium upon them, the federal government in the U.S. governs the diverse cultures, economies, religions and geographies of the several states of the Union.
He is the only historian who realized that the principal premise of the Jus Gentium was the basis for the U.S. Constitution. The principal premise of the Roman Jus Gentium was "omnes homines naturâ æquales sunt," [All men are created equal] Maine, Henry Sumner (2011-03-17). Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society ( Location 1094). Edition.
He points out, brilliantly, that Thomas Jefferson, and most of our founders, were scholars of ancient law and implemented the principles of ancient law in the founding of our country.
As this was written just after the American Civil War, Professor Maine's insights give new meaning to President Lincoln's most eloquent Gettysburg Address "Four Score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth onto THIS continent a NEW nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that omnes homines naturâ æquales sunt." [All men are created equal] . . . . that these honorèd dead shall not have died in vain, . . . and that the 'Jus Gentium' [translated by President Lincoln as 'Government of the people, by the people and for the people'] shall not perish from the earth."
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PACKED and more. Intricate explanations that require reader's intense attention--but "it's there," if your journey to it is a bit convoluted. From a lifetime of study and learning by a learned man of substance. The main reference text for a Berkeley professor's class. Not a fast read, but an informative one if time is taken. The language is generally elevated-1800s, but with some effort it can be handled. Usually. A piece of work.
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