The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's...
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries Showing How Blackstone, Employing Eighteenth-Century Ideas of Science, Religion, History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy, Made of the Law at Once a Conservative and a Mysterious Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1996]. xx, 253 pp. Illustrations. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $25. * A brilliant jurisprudential and intellectual analysis of Sir William Blackstone's foundational Commentaries on the Laws of England. Boorstin examines how Blackstone integrated 18th-century concepts of science, religion, aesthetics, and philosophy to fashion English common law into a cohesive, conservative, and deliberately mystified system. The work offers critical insights into the legal philosophies that heavily influenced early American constitutional framework and jurisprudence.
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