Principles of Government

ISBN-13: 9781584770466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 386 str.

Nathaniel Chipman

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Notable Early Treatise on the Principles of American Government.A revised version of Nathaniel Chipmans Sketches of the Principles of Government (1793), this early treatise on the underlying principles of American government addresses civil laws and obligations, the social state, rights of property, sovereignty and political power. An important early contribution to American constitutional law, it is also interesting for its Federalist perspective on the evolutions of political institutions from Washington to Jackson. Nathaniel Chipman [1752-1843] was a leading Vermont Federalist who was instrumental in that states admission to the Union. He became Vermonts chief Justice and went on to represent Vermont in the U.S. Senate. He was also one of Americas first significant legal writers. One of his books, the Reports and Dissertations (1793) is included in Warrens list of "the four general works on the Common Law... [of] permanent value in American Legal Literature.": Warren, A History of the American Bar 335-336.