United States of America
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Country cited as a site of recent scholarly publication on Magna Carta.
Monographs and contributions to periodical literature, devoted exclusively to Magna Carta, have been published in France, Germany and the United States of America, as well as in Great Britain;
In the United States of America, on the contrary, the sheriff is a purely executive official, possessing perhaps more real power, but notably less honour and social distinction, than fall to the lot of the English high sheriff.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Comparative reference point for the establishment of manhood or universal suffrage.
It is reasonable to anticipate the establishment in England, as now in our self-governing colonies, in the United States of America, in France, and in the German Empire of Manhood or Universal Suffrage.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The American political union formed from the states, whose constitutional structure of divided and limited power is the passage's central subject.
The first “union between the United States of America for their common defence and general welfare“ begins where the second ends.
From the same source, a number of weighty arguments may be drawn by the reader, sufficient to prove, that the great extent of the United States will not admit both of a central supremacy, and of a free form of governments;
The Law of Torts
Referenced repeatedly as a body of case-law and commentary (state reports, Losee v. Buchanan, Thomas v. Winchester) that both parallels and diverges from English tort doctrine.
Fletcher is disapproved as being in conflict with the current of American authority.
I owe the following additional references to State reports to the kindness of an American friend:
And see Wharton on Contracts, §§ 791, 1056, who defends the American rule on somewhat novel speculative grounds.
Law in a Free State
Country referenced both as a model of government and as the home of Benjamin Tucker's anarchist movement.
Benjamin Tucker, the high priest of anarchy in America, claims that it is precisely what is known in England as individualism.
Such are the people who would grant representative institutions to the Fijians, and who would model the Government of India on that of the United States of America.