Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society eBook Henry Sumner Maine
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This book should be mandatory reading for any history classes, law studies and political science curricula.Professor Maine (of Cambridge) wrote this treatise in 1867. It is a documentation of how ancient laws (especially from ancient Greece and Rome) have influenced our modern societies and systems of law.
One of the most illuminating chapters contains his brilliant analysis of the American system of government just after the civil war.
Professor Maine points out that the US system of government is based almost entirely on Roman Law. Many of the important ideas in our seminal documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, derive from the Roman "Jus Gentium." [The "law" of the People] The Jus Gentium was the law which Rome used to rule over its empire. It was designed to guarantee certain rights and freedoms to the people of the empire, notwithstanding their diverse cultural, economic and religious differences.
Prof. Maine points out that just as the Romans ruled over the diverse nations and cultures, of the ancient world, by imposing the Jus Gentium upon them, the federal government in the U.S. governs the diverse cultures, economies, religions and geographies of the several states of the Union.
He is the only historian who realized that the principal premise of the Jus Gentium was the basis for the U.S. Constitution. The principal premise of the Roman Jus Gentium was: "omnes homines naturâ æquales sunt," [All men are created equal] Maine, Henry Sumner (2011-03-17). Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society (Kindle Location 1094). Kindle Edition.
He points out, brilliantly, that Thomas Jefferson, and most of our founders, were scholars of ancient law and implemented the principles of ancient law in the founding of our country.
As this was written just after the American Civil War, Professor Maine's insights give new meaning to President Lincoln's most eloquent Gettysburg Address: "Four Score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth onto THIS continent a NEW nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that: omnes homines naturâ æquales sunt." [All men are created equal] . . . . that these honorèd dead shall not have died in vain, . . . and that the 'Jus Gentium' [translated by President Lincoln as: 'Government of the people, by the people and for the people'] shall not perish from the earth."
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Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society eBook Henry Sumner Maine Reviews
This item is what it was represented to be, and I am most appreciative of the fact that I received what I paid for.
Interesting for history buffs like myself, and you can't beat a free book.
While searching the Book for references to changing attitudes toward truth and former libel and slander laws, I decided to check what Rome and Greece had to say on the subject. The book is easy to read, is not interactive so one must 'use search this book'. The books were written in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but, with each one I seem to learn something.
The main thing I learned was that they had a different concept of crime. Most cases which a judge had to hear were what we now call civil or tort. Unless large numbers of people or public property were damaged, the case was simply between the perpetrator and the victim; it was settled by some sort of payment to cover the damage if the verdict was guilty. Don't think I read who paid the court costs.
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Henry Sumner Maine, an English jurist and historian, was a professor at Cambridge University and Trinity College and Oxford University. This book is a pioneering comparative study that traces the origins and history of the law of property, contracts, wills and estates, and crimes up through the nineteenth century. "Ancient Law," published just one year after Darwin's "Origin of Species," did not subscribe to Darwin's manifest destiny, but was mildly evolutionary. Legal development, Maine believed, developed in distinct stages, rather than being a reflection of a soveriegn's command or of natural law. Maine's writings were a major stimulus to the work of U.S. jurists, like Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, and his attacks on legal positism inspired James Henry Wigmore.
This book should be mandatory reading for any history classes, law studies and political science curricula.
Professor Maine (of Cambridge) wrote this treatise in 1867. It is a documentation of how ancient laws (especially from ancient Greece and Rome) have influenced our modern societies and systems of law.
One of the most illuminating chapters contains his brilliant analysis of the American system of government just after the civil war.
Professor Maine points out that the US system of government is based almost entirely on Roman Law. Many of the important ideas in our seminal documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, derive from the Roman "Jus Gentium." [The "law" of the People] The Jus Gentium was the law which Rome used to rule over its empire. It was designed to guarantee certain rights and freedoms to the people of the empire, notwithstanding their diverse cultural, economic and religious differences.
Prof. Maine points out that just as the Romans ruled over the diverse nations and cultures, of the ancient world, by imposing the Jus Gentium upon them, the federal government in the U.S. governs the diverse cultures, economies, religions and geographies of the several states of the Union.
He is the only historian who realized that the principal premise of the Jus Gentium was the basis for the U.S. Constitution. The principal premise of the Roman Jus Gentium was "omnes homines naturâ æquales sunt," [All men are created equal] Maine, Henry Sumner (2011-03-17). Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society ( Location 1094). Edition.
He points out, brilliantly, that Thomas Jefferson, and most of our founders, were scholars of ancient law and implemented the principles of ancient law in the founding of our country.
As this was written just after the American Civil War, Professor Maine's insights give new meaning to President Lincoln's most eloquent Gettysburg Address "Four Score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth onto THIS continent a NEW nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that omnes homines naturâ æquales sunt." [All men are created equal] . . . . that these honorèd dead shall not have died in vain, . . . and that the 'Jus Gentium' [translated by President Lincoln as 'Government of the people, by the people and for the people'] shall not perish from the earth."
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