Securities Against Misrule and Other Constitutional Writings for Tripoli and Greece

ISBN-13: 9780198227250 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 382 str.

Jeremy Bentham; Philip Schofield; F. Rosen

Opis

This is a collection of Bentham's essays, dating mainly from late 1822 and early 1823, concerning his attempts to draw up legislation for one Islamic state, and offer advice to another in the process of throwing off Islamic rule. The writings for Tripoli include the famous "Securities Against Misrule," as well as discussion of the social, political, and religious institutions of the country. The writings for Greece include a rare commentary on the first Greek constitution of 1822, and advice and warnings to the Greek legislators against the temptation of "sinister appetites." Both groups of writings emphasize the efficacy of representative institutions and the publicity of official actions in preventing the abuse of governmental power.

Recenzje

In this interesting and accessible addition to the new Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Philip Schofield brings together further important essays on constitutional theory ... The editorial standards of this volume are exemplary and Schofield is to be congratulated. It maintains the high standards one has come to expect of the Bentham edition. This volume is important not only for Bentham scholars but for all those interested in the significance of constitutional ideas for political theory.

Spis treści

Symbols and abbreviations; Editorial introduction; WRITINGS FOR TRIPOLI: Some account of the state of Tripoli on the Barbary Coast in North Africa; Securities against misrule; Preliminary explanations; Letters from Jeremy Bentham and Hassuna D'Ghies to John Quincy Adams; WRITINGS FOR GREECE: Greece: Principles of legislation as to constitutional law; Jeremy Bentham to Greek legislators; Observations by an Englishman on a passage in Raffanel's Histoire des évenéments de la Gréce; Constitutional code: matter occasioned by Greece; Constitutional code; Index of subjects; Index of names