Blackstone s Commentaries

• Blackstone's Commentaries

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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• District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. (2008)

...Bishop, Commentaries on Written Laws and Their Interpretation §51, p. ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Rediscovering Blackstone.

William Blackstone's views on natural law, rights, and the relationship between individualism and community have been misrepresented and unjustly disparaged. Blackstone did not believe that principles of natural law could be used to deduce the answers to legal questions. He also acknowledged that property rights could be limited in the interest of the public good, that the law must adapt to changing circumstances, and that individualism and community both represent important values. Blackstone's 'Commentaries' were highly influential during the formative period of American law.

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 145 Nbr. 1, November 1996

• England Was First

Stuart B. Schoenburg ("The beginning of the end of slavery," Letters, Wednesday) wrongly asserts that the first nations or states to outlaw slavery were in the United States. A nice story, but not true. Slavery was held illegal in England in 1772 by Lord Mansfield. In a decision cribbed from Sir William Blackstone's commentaries, Mansfield held that "the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.

• The Washington Times
• February 21, 2005

• The question of the constitutional case against suicide: an historiographical and originalist inquiry into the degree to which the theory of the inalienable right to life and liberty is enforced by the Thirteenth Amendment.

... why Blackstone's great treatise, the Commentaries on the Laws of England, was originally a series of...

• Issues in Law & Medicine
• Vol. 26 Nbr. 2, September 2010

• Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969)

...Blackstone's Commentaries *175. Nowell's exclusion, therefore, is irrelevant...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Two faces: demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's land title theory.

... rule dates back to Blackstone's Commentaries, which stated: "[What are] the requisites of a dee...

• William and Mary Law Review
• Vol. 53 Nbr. 1, October 2011

• The "other" side of Richardson v. Ramirez: a textual challenge to felon disenfranchisement.

...'s Dictionary and Blackstone's Commentaries of the word "crime" as a "deep[] and atrocious" vi...

• Yale Law Journal
• Vol. 121 Nbr. 1, October 2011

• Renico v. Lett, 559 U. S. (2010)

... did not appear in Blackstone’s Commentaries;[ 6 it is no surprise, then, that colonial juries...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Rescuing the Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause: How 'Attrition of Parliamentary Processes' Begat Accidental Ambiguity; How Ambiguity Begat Slaughter-House

This Essay addresses a topic of great academic and practical interest currently facing the Supreme Court: whether the Privileges or Immunities Clause, which has lain dormant since the Court's ill-conceived 1873 Slaughter-House Cases decision, should be resurrected in order to apply the Second Amendment to the states. The Essay makes the novel argument that the textual basis for the Slaughter-House Court's holding regarding the clause - i.e., the lack of parallel textual construction in the first two sentences of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment regarding citizenship) - was in fact the wholly unintentional product of what we might call "attrition of parliamentary processes." This analysis is not new to the Supreme Court. Borrowed from an oral argument made before the U.S. Supreme Co...

... found in Magna Carta, Blackstone's Commentaries, and Justice Washington's enumeration in Corfield ...

• The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 2, December 2009