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... law that appeared in Britain from 1758 to 1765: Blackstone's Discourses on the Study of Law (1759), Wallace's Laws of Scotland (1760), Grey's Debates of the House of Commons (1763), and Elly's Liberty of Subjects in England (1765).
... law that appeared in Britain from 1758 to 1765: Blackstone's Discourses on the Study of Law (1759), Wallace's Laws of Scotland (1760), Grey's Debates of the House of Commons (1763), and Elly's Liberty of Subjects in England (1765).
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... to Blackstone," because Coke had inspired his seventeenth-century successors in legal theory to give a strong moral and constitutional basis to English civil liberty under the common law. Among the men who followed Coke was Selden, ...
... to Blackstone," because Coke had inspired his seventeenth-century successors in legal theory to give a strong moral and constitutional basis to English civil liberty under the common law. Among the men who followed Coke was Selden, ...
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... of the division of power within and between Church and State, and aimed at establishing the maximum of civil liberty, under which man as a political animal could fulfill his highest capabilities in the corporate life of his society.
... of the division of power within and between Church and State, and aimed at establishing the maximum of civil liberty, under which man as a political animal could fulfill his highest capabilities in the corporate life of his society.
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The most frequent charge of his critics has been that after a lifetime of defending the oppressed, in America, Ireland, India, and at home, he betrayed his love of liberty by defending the old regime in France, and in so doing was ...
The most frequent charge of his critics has been that after a lifetime of defending the oppressed, in America, Ireland, India, and at home, he betrayed his love of liberty by defending the old regime in France, and in so doing was ...
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They have emphasized the importance of his appeals to social traditions and manners, to legal prescription and laws, to his passion for liberty connected with civil order and legal justice, to his veneration of "the wisdom of our ...
They have emphasized the importance of his appeals to social traditions and manners, to legal prescription and laws, to his passion for liberty connected with civil order and legal justice, to his veneration of "the wisdom of our ...
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Contents
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| 19 | |
| 47 | |
An Abridgment of English History 1757 | 76 |
Selections from Book Reviews in the Annual Register | 104 |
A Short Account of a Late Short Administration 1766 | 117 |
Speech on Conciliation 1775 | 176 |
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1777 | 223 |
Tract on the Popery Laws 1765 | 253 |
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland 1782 | 274 |
A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe 1792 | 288 |
A Letter to Richard Burke 1793 | 320 |
A Letter to William Smith 1795 | 330 |
Speech on Economical Reform 1780 | 341 |
Speech on the Middlesex Election 1771 | 363 |
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| Title | Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Peter James Stanlis |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 141282222X, 9781412822220 |
| Length | 585 pages |
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