Influenced the Founders and Later Legal Authorities Including Pound, Story and Reid
Originally published: Baltimore: Published by William and Joseph Neal, 1832. x, 596 pp. First published in England in 1754-1756, this exposition of natural law and De Jure Belli ac Pacis was one of the most important English treatises of the period. Reprinted in America in 1799, it was a standard text here for several decades. Reprint of the second American edition.
"The founders found it advantageous to rely on his work during the creation and the ratification of the Constitution; the Institutes was...