Leftist lawyers behave toward their mission very much the way Brutus behaved toward Julius Caesar....
....stabbing it in the back,
Let's prove it.
1. Lutz and Hyneman studied the intellectual influences on the Founders by reviewing some 15,000 items written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention. In these writings, they identified 3,154 references to other sources, as follows: 34% from the Bible, particularly the book of Deuteronomy; 22% from Enlightenment thinkers, especially Montesquieu, Locke, Hume, and Pufendorf; 18% from Whig opposition literature, particularly ‘Cato’s Letters;’ 11% from British common law, particularly Blackstone; and 8% from the classics, most often Plutarch, Cicero, Plato, and Aristotle. [p. 31]
See "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought," The American Political Science Review, 78 (1984), pp. 189-197
"....11% from British common law, particularly Blackstone..."
2. "Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England....
....his Commentaries. Designed to provide a complete overview of English law, the four-volume treatise was repeatedly republished in 1770, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1778 and in a posthumous edition in 1783. ... Blackstone's work gave the law "at least a veneer of scholarly respectability".[1]
"If the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that [the United States], and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the common law."[2] In the United States, the Commentaries influenced Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Wilson, John Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln, and remain frequently cited in Supreme Court decisions."
William Blackstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Notice: these men saw Blackstone as their mentor-Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Wilson, John Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln,
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws was first introduced in 1768, and for the next 100 years America’s courts quoted Blackstone to settle disputes, to define words, and to examine procedure; Blackstone’s Commentaries were the final word in the Supreme Courts.
Donald Lutz, The Origins of American Constitutionalism 1988
“The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth Century American Political Thought” American Political Science Review
3. And here, the words that we live by, from Blackstone"
"....as judgment of outlawry on a capital crime, pronounced for absconding or fleeing from justice, which tacitly confesses the guilt."
William Blackstone, Commentaries 4:373--79
How does a criminal announce his own guilt?
"....absconding or fleeing from justice, which tacitly confesses the guilt."
What would you say about a judge who denied that dictum?
....stabbing it in the back,
Let's prove it.
1. Lutz and Hyneman studied the intellectual influences on the Founders by reviewing some 15,000 items written by delegates to the Constitutional Convention. In these writings, they identified 3,154 references to other sources, as follows: 34% from the Bible, particularly the book of Deuteronomy; 22% from Enlightenment thinkers, especially Montesquieu, Locke, Hume, and Pufendorf; 18% from Whig opposition literature, particularly ‘Cato’s Letters;’ 11% from British common law, particularly Blackstone; and 8% from the classics, most often Plutarch, Cicero, Plato, and Aristotle. [p. 31]
See "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought," The American Political Science Review, 78 (1984), pp. 189-197
"....11% from British common law, particularly Blackstone..."
2. "Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England....
....his Commentaries. Designed to provide a complete overview of English law, the four-volume treatise was repeatedly republished in 1770, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1778 and in a posthumous edition in 1783. ... Blackstone's work gave the law "at least a veneer of scholarly respectability".[1]
"If the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that [the United States], and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the common law."[2] In the United States, the Commentaries influenced Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Wilson, John Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln, and remain frequently cited in Supreme Court decisions."
William Blackstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Notice: these men saw Blackstone as their mentor-Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Wilson, John Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln,
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws was first introduced in 1768, and for the next 100 years America’s courts quoted Blackstone to settle disputes, to define words, and to examine procedure; Blackstone’s Commentaries were the final word in the Supreme Courts.
Donald Lutz, The Origins of American Constitutionalism 1988
“The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth Century American Political Thought” American Political Science Review
3. And here, the words that we live by, from Blackstone"
"....as judgment of outlawry on a capital crime, pronounced for absconding or fleeing from justice, which tacitly confesses the guilt."
William Blackstone, Commentaries 4:373--79
How does a criminal announce his own guilt?
"....absconding or fleeing from justice, which tacitly confesses the guilt."
What would you say about a judge who denied that dictum?
