--- product_id: 16389313 title: "The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law" price: "25676CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/16389313-the-higher-law-background-of-american-constitutional-law store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law **Price:** 25676CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law - **How much does it cost?** 25676CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/16389313-the-higher-law-background-of-american-constitutional-law) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Having written extensively on various aspects of the American constitutional order, Edward S. Corwin is considered a leading constitutional scholar of the twentieth century. Alpheus Mason described Corwin’s writings as “sources of learning and understanding—hallmarks to emulate and revere.” The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law is of unique value in connecting the Western European experience—from the classical world, the Middle Ages, and the seventeenth-century thought of Coke and Locke—to the American founding. This renowned work provides a bold and accurate outline of the tradition behind the “higher law” of the United States and places in historical context the political philosophy underlying the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution. This volume addresses questions such as: • Where did the idea of a “higher law” originate? • How has it been able to survive and in what transformations? • What special forms of it are of particular interest for historians and political theorists? • How was it brought to America and wrought into the American system of government? As Clinton Rossiter notes in his prefatory note, “No one can come away from reading [Higher Law] without realizing how much we in America are part of Western civilization. The men we meet in the pages of this essay—Demosthenes, Sophocles, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Ulpian, Gaius, John of Salisbury, Isidore of Seville, St. Thomas Aquinas, Bracton, Fortescue, Coke, Grotius, Newton, Hooker, Pufendorf, Locke, Blackstone—all insisted that the laws by which men live can and should be the ‘embodiment of essential and unchanging justice,’ and we may salute them respectfully as founding fathers of our experiment in ordered liberty.” In this volume Corwin demonstrates how the concept of a higher law developed and was understood by the leading thinkers of the American Revolutionary period as well as how the ideal of the higher law impacted the creation of the American Constitution. Students, scholars, and general interested readers of constitutional law and political theory will find inspiration in the pages of The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law . Edward S. Corwin (1878–1963) served as the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University from 1908 to 1946. Review: Anyone wanting to find in one book the background sources ... - Anyone wanting to find in one book the background sources for our Constitution and our constitutional heritage need go no further than reading this book. It becomes painstakingly clear why America adopted the English Common Law basis for our Constitution and not the Roman law heritage prevalent in Europe today. While it may not mean much on its face value, our English heritage gave rise to the early American practices of writing out our constitutions and signing them, judicial review, and, of course, consent of the governed. This slim book is one to read again and again. Review: Five Stars - I love reading Corwin!! Amazing scholar, so comprehensive, pertinent and astute! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,540,225 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #771 in Constitutional Law (Books) #1,170 in Legal History (Books) #1,392 in General Constitutional Law | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 17 Reviews | ## Images ![The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51BjFKj1HZL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Anyone wanting to find in one book the background sources ... *by P***W on September 23, 2016* Anyone wanting to find in one book the background sources for our Constitution and our constitutional heritage need go no further than reading this book. It becomes painstakingly clear why America adopted the English Common Law basis for our Constitution and not the Roman law heritage prevalent in Europe today. While it may not mean much on its face value, our English heritage gave rise to the early American practices of writing out our constitutions and signing them, judicial review, and, of course, consent of the governed. This slim book is one to read again and again. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by J***R on August 24, 2016* I love reading Corwin!! Amazing scholar, so comprehensive, pertinent and astute! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ History of Higher Law *by S***R on March 15, 2016* Incredible book. 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