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Blackstone, William (1723–80)
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AbstractWilliam Blackstone was an English jurist and author ofCommentaries on the Laws of England(1765–9), a leading work of law and jurisprudence as well as indispensable authority for the framers of American state and federal constitutions. Blackstone inaugurated university study of English common law (versus civil or Roman law), and thus is father of the Anglo‐American legal profession educated in university law schools. TheCommentaries’ systematic statement of basic legal principles and individual rights, along with summaries of both statute and common‐law case law, made it the basic legal text in the Anglo‐American world for a century. After 1776 the new American constitutions enacted Blackstone's principles of a moderate constitutionalism devoted to liberty, including separation of powers, bills of rights, and independent courts within a complex, balanced constitution.
Title: Blackstone, William (1723–80)
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AbstractWilliam Blackstone was an English jurist and author ofCommentaries on the Laws of England(1765–9), a leading work of law and jurisprudence as well as indispensable authority for the framers of American state and federal constitutions.
Blackstone inaugurated university study of English common law (versus civil or Roman law), and thus is father of the Anglo‐American legal profession educated in university law schools.
TheCommentaries’ systematic statement of basic legal principles and individual rights, along with summaries of both statute and common‐law case law, made it the basic legal text in the Anglo‐American world for a century.
After 1776 the new American constitutions enacted Blackstone's principles of a moderate constitutionalism devoted to liberty, including separation of powers, bills of rights, and independent courts within a complex, balanced constitution.
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