Description Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone\'s Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765.
Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of.
Boorstin examines why Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire.
Daniel J.
For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it.
Description Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone\'s Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765