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Author : A. E. Dick Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001573008
Author : Arthur E. Dick Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164628327
Author : Philip Major
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317054665
Sir John Denham (1614/15–1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-century English letters. Despite his influence as a poet, wit, courtier, exile, politician and surveyor of the king's works, Denham, remains a neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary collection provide the sustained modern critical attention his life and work merit. The book both examines for the first time and reassesses important features of Denham's life and reputations: his friendship circles, his role as a political satirist, his religious inclinations, his playwriting years, and the personal, political and literary repercussions of his long exile; and offers fresh interpretations of his poetic magnum opus, Coopers Hill. Building on the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in royalists and royalism, as well as on Restoration literature and drama, this lively account of Denham's influence questions assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and literary boundaries. What emerges is a complex man who subverts as well as reinforces conventional characterisations of court wit, gambler and dilettante.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick,David Abulafia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 052136289X
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Author : 钱乘旦,高岱
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
本书为2015年在北京大学举行的第三届中英英国史学术交流研讨会论文精选，中英双方学者就英国中世纪的遗产及对后来历史发展的影响展开了精彩论述。反映了英国史研究的学术前沿进展。
Author : James Clarke Holt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521277787
An expanded edition of a classic study of the Magna Carta interprets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Author : Victoria,Louis Horwitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112105409454
Several statutes have been grouped for convenience. Under Acts Interpretation will be found the Statutes passed for revision of errors; under Constitution the Electoral Acts, Purification of Rolls, all Acts affecting the Governor, Ministers and Members of Parliament, the Public Contracts, and Trust Fund Acts. The three Administration Acts and the Intestates' Estates Act will be found together. Under Carriages the new Width of Tires Act finds its appropriate place. Under Companies are grouped the Banks and Currency and all the Acts affecting Voluntary Liquidation and Reconstruction, together with the Mining Companies, Defunct Companies, and Public and Bank Holidays Acts. Each group of Acts contains a Contents Index, giving the history of the present legislation, and a page number for easier reference. A General Index is published with the last volume, and a List of Cases, and the General Historical Table of Legislation, printed in the beginning of Volume I of the 1890 Statutes has been corrected and brought up to date.--Preface.
Author : Marshall S. Shapo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199896363
Author Marshall S. Shapo presents the argument that the body of law Americans have developed concerning responsibility for injuries and prevention of injuries has some of the qualities of a constitution--a fundamental set of principles that govern relations among people and between people and corporate and governmental institutions. This 'injury law constitution' includes tort law, legislative compensation systems like workers compensation, and the many statutes that regulate the safety of risky activities and of products ranging from drugs and medical devices to automobiles and cigarettes. An Injury Law Constitution presents a novel thesis that embraces leading features of the American law of injuries. Professor Shapo's analysis, into which he weaves the history of these varied systems of law, links them to the unique compensation plan devised for the victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Professor Shapo examines how our injury law reflects deeply held views in American society on risk and injury, indicating how the injury law constitution serves as a guide to the question of what it means to be an American. Refusing to accept easy academic formulas, An Injury Law Constitution captures the reality of how people respond to injury risks in functional contexts involving diverse activities and products.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Session laws
ISBN : NYPL:33433006454981
Author : Natalie Fryde
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825856571
This book suggests that Magna Carta was not simply the product of the evil rule of King John but the culmination of unease with the Angevin government dating back to the reign of Henry II. It analyzes the reasons for this unease, the expressions of discontent and the ways which the Angevins dealt with them. Fryde also discusses Royal opponents who, early on, looked favorably upon the Capetian court.
Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681445991
In this erudite, entertaining book, award-winning historian and television presenter David Starkey untangles historical and modern misconceptions about one of the founding documents of democracy. Along the way, he shows how the Magna Carta laid the foundation for the British constitution, influenced the American Revolution and the U.S. constitution, and continues to shape jurisprudential thinking about individual rights around the world today. In 1215, King John I of England faced a domestic crisis. He had just lost an expensive campaign to retake his ancestral lands in France, an unfortunate adventure that he had funded by heavily taxing the baronial lords of England. Sick of the unpopular king's heavy-handed rule, and unimpressed by the king's unsuccessful attempt to seize Normandy, the feudal barons united to make demands of their sovereign for certain protections. These demands, the "Articles of the Barons," were submitted to the king in rough draft after the rebels occupied three cities, most significantly London. A few years later, after being edited and amplified by the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, the Articles would come to be known as the Magna Carta. The self-interested barons couldn't have known it at the time, but those demands would one day become the bedrock of democratic political development around the globe--even though that influence was largely due to mythologizing by later scholars who warped the symbolism of the document to support their arguments in favor of the rights of all citizens. Although the Magna Carta itself made no requests on behalf of the peasantry, in its structure the outlines of modern democratic reform are plainly visible. Among other things, it demanded limits on the ability of the crown to levy taxes; protection of the rights of the church; the guarantee of swift justice; and a ban on unjust imprisonment. Those protections and guarantees were strictly intended for benefit of feudal barons, but the free citizens of today's democratic nations owe an enormous debt to this history-changing document.
Author : Sara Mayeux
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781469656038
Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalism. First gaining appeal amidst the Progressive Era fervor for court reform, the public defender idea was swiftly quashed by elite corporate lawyers who believed the legal profession should remain independent from the state. Public defenders took hold in some localities but not yet as a nationwide standard. By the 1960s, views had shifted. Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined the right to counsel into law and the legal profession mobilized to expand the ranks of public defenders nationwide. Yet within a few years, lawyers had already diagnosed a "crisis" of underfunded, overworked defenders providing inadequate representation--a crisis that persists today. This book shows how these conditions, often attributed to recent fiscal emergencies, have deep roots, and it chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.
Author : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226454726
Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is “the church,” and how is it understood in US law today? In Church State Corporation, religion and law scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan uncovers the deeply ambiguous and often unacknowledged ways in which Christian theology remains alive and at work in the American legal imagination. Through readings of the opinions of the US Supreme Court and other legal texts, Sullivan shows how “the church” as a religious collective is granted special privilege in US law. In-depth analyses of Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby reveal that the law tends to honor the religious rights of the group—whether in the form of a church, as in Hosanna-Tabor, or in corporate form, as in Hobby Lobby—over the rights of the individual, offering corporate religious entities an autonomy denied to their respective members. In discussing the various communities that construct the “church-shaped space” in American law, Sullivan also delves into disputes over church property, the legal exploitation of the black church in the criminal justice system, and the recent case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Brimming with insight, Church State Corporation provocatively challenges our most basic beliefs about the ties between religion and law in ostensibly secular democracies.
Author : Robert M. Pallitto
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700620913
In the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, of course. But he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would a twenty-first century judge,even under the extraordinary circumstances of the "war on terror," invoke a document signed by an English king in the thirteenth century? To address this question, as Robert Pallitto does in this clarifying book, is to probe the history of modern civil liberties, and to explore the process by which judges decide individual rights cases. Pallitto's work, with its insight into competing ideas about interpreting the Constitution--"originalism" versus "constitutional common law"—is of critical importance to our understanding of the nation's founding document. Of far more than symbolic significance, the Magna Carta exerts immediate practical influence on legal outcomes, as Justice Kennedy's opinion demonstrates. To explain this, Pallitto first goes into the Charter's origins, history, and nature, especially its explicit use of "the law of the land" to protect subjects' rights and liberty. The Magna Carta's legacy in the United States reaches back to the nation's founding, with even the colonial charters reflecting its influence. But it is in the Supreme Court's reference to the Charter, spanning the institution's full two-hundred years, that Pallitto finds the greatest impact—most frequently inthe principles of due process (in criminal proceedings) and habeas corpus, but in many other provisions as well. And the weight of this impact registers most deeply and clearly in the development of the constitutional common law—the theory that courts should and do interpret and expand on constitutional texts by reference to tradition and precedent rather than to the drafter's original intent. Charting the Magna Carta's influence on the contemporary jurisprudence of individual rights--from the legal thought of the American colonies through exemplary cases over the history of the Supreme Court—this book offers resounding evidence of the evolution and value of abiding principles through which American liberty endures.
Author : W. L. Warren
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520036433
"An account of John's life and reign based on modern research and set forth in a manner that will appeal as much to the general reader as to the student"--Daily Telegraph.
