USA Law

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  • Lawyers and Principles of Economics

    Lawyers and Principles of Economics in the United States Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, Selected writings about lawyers In his huge Principles of Economics Alfred Marshall mentioned several times the role of lawyers: Appendix A But though the Romans contributed but little […]

  • Lawyers and “Self-Help: With Illustrations…”

    Lawyers and Self-Help: With Illustrations… in the United States Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, Selected Writings about Lawyers Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct is a book of Samuel Smiles which made some references to lawyers. See table of contents below. […]

  • Lawyers and Pictures of the Socialistic Future

    Lawyers and Pictures of the Socialistic Future in the United States Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, Selected Writings about Lawyers In the book Pictures of the Socialistic Future, Eugene Richter wrote some paragraphs about lawyers. In the Chapter 2 of the book: The new […]

  • Lawyers in Progress and Poverty

    Lawyers in Progress and Poverty in the United States Main source: Salvador Trinxet Llorca, Selected Writings about Lawyers Progress and Poverty was a very famous book (in the United States) from Henry George. In the Book I, Chapter 3 of the book, George wrote: Wherever we analyze the […]

  • Ethical rules, decision-making and finances

    Ethical rules, decision-making and finances in United States The individual may recognize full well that there is a conflict between his behavior as a private decision-maker and that behavior which, if generalized to all persons, would produce results more desirable to him. But, in his private […]

  • Legal Structure as Public Capital

    Legal Structure as Public Capital in United States Legal Structure as Public Capital The question directly suggests a critically important feature of law and law-abiding that has been left aside to this point. The structure of law, whether this be described empirically in formal or informal […]

  • Formal and Informal Law: The Role of Ethics

    Formal and Informal Law: The Role of Ethics in United States Formal and Informal Law: The Role of Ethics To this point the analysis has been based in the implicit assumption that formal, codified rules and regulations, requiring explicit collective implementation, make up the primary if not […]

  • The Benefits and Costs of Law

    The Benefits and Costs of Law in the United States Law-abiding on the part of an individual is the cost that he pays as a part of the overall legal-social contract between himself and others in the community, treated as a unit. In a private, personal utility sense, any limits on individual […]

  • Law and Public Goods

    Law and Public Goods in the United States To the extent that law embodies the contractual origins discussed above, or that law may be conceptually explained on the as if presumption of such origins, law-abiding exerts a pure external economy. This feature distinguishes law from the more […]

  • Law as Public Capital

    Law as Public Capital in the United States Man makes laws; in this respect he differs from other animals. He chooses deliberately to impose constraints on his own behavior; he distinguishes between rational planning and response to stimuli. Self-imposed law in an isolated individual setting […]

  • “The Law”

    The Law: a book of Bastian in the United States The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June, 1850, was written by Bastiat, Frederic (1801-1850), a french stateman and a legal philosopher of law. The limits of law He wrote: Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have […]

  • Bastiat, Frederic

    Bastiat, Frederic in the United States The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. —Frederic Bastiat Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a legal philosopher of law, through his book The Law, about how France was being falsement seduced […]

  • Law is justice: Bastiat

    Law is justice in the United States Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was […]

  • Condillac

    Condillac in the United States Condillac, on this subject of the legislators and mankind (see Mably), wrote: My Lord, assume the character of Lycurgus or of Solon. And before you finish reading this essay, amuse yourself by giving laws to some savages in America or Africa. Confine these […]

  • Mably

    Mably in the United States Mably on the subject of the law and the legislator, in the passages preceding the one here quoted, Mably has supposed the laws, due to a neglect of security, to be worn out. He continues to address the reader thusly: Under these circumstances, it is obvious […]