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Joseph Story And the Encyclopedia Americana
[Story, Joseph]. Horowitz, Valerie L., Editor.
Joseph Story and the Encyclopedia Americana. With an Original Introduction by Morris L. Cohen. Clark, New The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006. xv, 206 pp. 978-1-58477-528-7. Hardcover. New.
* Never before gathered in any volume, this work presents eighteen articles about major legal subjects by Joseph Story [1779-1845] produced for the first edition of the Encyclopedia Americana (1829-1833), which was edited by Francis Lieber [1798-1872]. Little-known today because they were written anonymously and never published in any other form, these extended essays are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. Many of them were written during his dual tenure as Supreme Court justice and Dane Professor at Harvard Law School. We offer them in an enlarged print version of their original form, now with an extensive introduction by Morris L. Cohen, an appendix with texts of rare related materials and now a detailed index. Ranging from "Codes," "Common Law" and "Congress of the United States," to "Law of Nations," "Natural Law" and "Usury," they are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. Story was appointed the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1811 and in 1829 became the first Dane professor of law at Harvard Law School. An important educator, he wrote several influential treatises, such as the landmark Commentaries on the Constitution (1833).
Joseph Story and the Encyclopedia Americana. With an Original Introduction by Morris L. Cohen. Clark, New The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006. xv, 206 pp. 978-1-58477-528-7. Hardcover. New.
* Never before gathered in any volume, this work presents eighteen articles about major legal subjects by Joseph Story [1779-1845] produced for the first edition of the Encyclopedia Americana (1829-1833), which was edited by Francis Lieber [1798-1872]. Little-known today because they were written anonymously and never published in any other form, these extended essays are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. Many of them were written during his dual tenure as Supreme Court justice and Dane Professor at Harvard Law School. We offer them in an enlarged print version of their original form, now with an extensive introduction by Morris L. Cohen, an appendix with texts of rare related materials and now a detailed index. Ranging from "Codes," "Common Law" and "Congress of the United States," to "Law of Nations," "Natural Law" and "Usury," they are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. Story was appointed the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1811 and in 1829 became the first Dane professor of law at Harvard Law School. An important educator, he wrote several influential treatises, such as the landmark Commentaries on the Constitution (1833).
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Joseph Story
471 books9 followersAmerican lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The Amistad case, and especially for his magisterial Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
Story opposed Jacksonian democracy, saying it was "oppression" of property rights by republican governments when popular majorities began (in the 1830s) to restrict and erode the property rights of the minority of rich men. Historians agree that Justice Joseph Story reshaped American law—as much or more than Marshall or anyone else—in a conservative direction that protected property rights.
Story opposed Jacksonian democracy, saying it was "oppression" of property rights by republican governments when popular majorities began (in the 1830s) to restrict and erode the property rights of the minority of rich men. Historians agree that Justice Joseph Story reshaped American law—as much or more than Marshall or anyone else—in a conservative direction that protected property rights.
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