Search Results for: Common Law And Natural Law In America

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natura

The law of nature -- The common law -- The adoption of written constitutions -- The separation of law and religion -- The explosion in law publishing -- The two

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human crea

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.