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Review Of Bench And Bureaucracy: The Public Career Of Sir Julius Caesar, William Hamilton Bryson
Review Of Bench And Bureaucracy: The Public Career Of Sir Julius Caesar, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
A book review of Bench and Bureaucracy: The Public Career of Sir Julius Caesar by Lamar M. Hill.
Legal Growth Through Evolution: Comment On Puritan Revolution And English Law, William Hamilton Bryson
Legal Growth Through Evolution: Comment On Puritan Revolution And English Law, William Hamilton Bryson
Law Faculty Publications
Professor Harold Berman has presented the fascinating thesis that a people's religion influences their laws and that the Puritan religious revolution of seventeenth century England introduced Calvinist ideas into Anglo-American jurisprudence. I fully agree with Professor Berman's observations that religious beliefs and a sense of moral obligation to others are some of the motivations of, or at least influences upon, legal growth. Economic aggrandizement is not the only motivation of the human race. Religion has had a direct effect upon social and political institutions.