The Principles of Natural and Politic Law: Volume 1

Jean Jacques Burlamaqui

янв. 1763 г. · J. Nourse

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Burlamaqui outlined a constitutional system based on principles similar to those of the American founding fathers. "Burlamaqui formulated the principles of popular sovereignty, of delegated power, of a constitution as a fundamental law, of a personal and functional separation of powers into three independent departments...and finally, he provided for an institutional guardian of the fundamental law" (Harvey.) Burlamaqui's other great achievement was to put Pufendorf's theories into systematic form. Blackstone was among the many jurists influenced by this work. Marvin stated a general opinion when he observed that "his works are deservedly held in high esteem." -- Legal Bibliography, 162. Harvey, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui: A Liberal Tradition in American Constitutionalism, 178-179. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law, 7809.