The Reasonableness of the Law
By Charles W. Bacon and Franklyn S. Morse
2000/04 - Beard Books - Law Classic
1893122867 - Paperback - Reprint - 414 pp.
An interesting discourse on law as the perfection of reason, and showing that
the law is the application of reason to the problems of social control.
This volume is engrossing and thought-provoking reading for students of history, government and the law. To support the premise that the causes and forms of law are found in the experience of mankind, the authors explore the origins of law, the progress of law, and the principles of law in its reasonableness. Law is founded on principles of right and wrong that never change, but the application of these rules varies with changes in social and economic conditions and in conceptions of right and justice. Covered in this illuminating discourse are the legal bases of American governments, constitutional law, equity as a law of prevention, international law, and statute law.
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Charles W. Bacon was a member of the New York Bar and the author of The American Plan of Government.
Franklyn S. Morse was an instructor in history in the Collegiate School of New York City.
||The Legal Basis of American Governments
||Establishment of the Colonial Governments
||Establishment of the United States Government
||Establishment of the State Governments
||Contents of American Constitutions
||The Division of Governmental Powers
||The Police Power
||The Power to Regulate Commerce
||The Construction and Interpretation of Constitutions
||The American Common Law: an Unwritten Law of Government
||Establishment of Un-enacted Law in the United States
||Rules of American Common Law
||Common Law Cases
||Common Law Remedies
||Equity: A Law of Prevention
||Evolution of Equity in the United States
||Maxims of Equity
||Proceedings in Equity
||Remedies in Equity
||Growth of International Law
||Principles of International Law
||Enforcement of International Law
||The Enacted Law
||Enactment of Statutes
||Constitutionality of Statutes: State
||Constitutionality of Statutes: Federal
||Construction and Interpretation of Statutes
||Constitution of the United States