Principles Of Legislation

Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general. Bases the discussions on pain and pleasure as basic principle of law embodiment. Mentions of the circumstance influencing sensibility, general human actions, intentionality, conciousness, motives, human dispositions, consequencess of mischievous act, case of punishment, and offences' division.

Bentham's treatise on the foundations of law and government.

Bentham's treatise on the foundations of law and government.

Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which these ideals are achieved. Political scientists keep institutions in view but deploy a meager set of value-conceptions in analyzing them. A more political political theory is needed to address this gap, Jeremy Waldron argues.

'An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation' is a book by the English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham first published in 1789. Labelled as Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops his theory of utilitarianism, in respect of ethical theory, and is the first major book on the topic. Bentham seeks to determine what a system of laws would look like if it was constructed on a purely utilitarian basis.

In this remarkable work Luce [1862-1946] elucidates the often complex relations between legislatures and the law. He then addresses the nature, origin and development of law, representative institutions and organic law as embodied in the U.S. Constitution, constitutional conventions and statute law. Luce was a member of the Massachusetts General Court, Lieutenant-Governor and member of Congress. An expert on legislative government, he was also a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917-1919.

"Having a two-fold object in view, the work herewith submitted to my countrymen is in two parts. By the first, which is nothing more than a familiar biographical sketch, they are brought acquainted with the man Jeremy Bentham: by the last, which may be regarded as an abridgment of his whole system of philosophy, with the Philanthropist, the Lawgiver, and the Statesman. Of the biographical sketch referred to, which precedes the following translation of his celebrated work on morals and law, by M. Dumont of Geneva, a small part has already appeared in the Yankee and other journals of our country; the remainder is entirely new. The whole of the second part has been carefully reviewed and compared with the originals, paragraph by paragraph. The readers (and the writers) of the Edinburgh, Quarterly, Westminster and North American Reviews, will now have what they never have had before--an opportunity of knowing the truth and the whole truth about the character and opinions, the philosophy and the faith of a man, whose followers--the calumniated Utilitarians--are now so numerous and so powerful, as to be reckoned a party in the British empire"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

First published in 1945 under title : "The limits of jurisprudence defined," being a continuation of the author's "An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation."

Unlike most works in constitutional theory, which focus on the role of the courts, this book addresses the role of legislatures in a regime of constitutional democracy. Bringing together some of the world's leading constitutional scholars and political scientists, the book addresses legislatures in democratic theory, legislating and deliberating in the constitutional state, constitution-making by legislatures, legislative and popular constitutionalism, and the dialogic role of legislatures, both domestically with other institutions and internationally with other legislatures. The book offers theoretical perspectives as well as case studies of several types of legislation from the United States and Canada. It also addresses the role of legislatures both under the Westminster model and under a separation of powers system.