Skip to main content alibris logo

A Fragment on Government

by

Write The First Customer Review
A Fragment on Government - Bentham, Jeremy, and Montague, F C 1858-1935
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

Jeremy Bentham's A Fragment on Government is a critical response to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769). Bentham discusses the weaknesses of the British government as well as the faults within Blackstone's treatises. He argues for the principle of utility, to logically lead his readers to the idea that a legal code should seek the happiness of the largest amount of people. Bentham criticizes Blackstone's praise of common law in favor of a more equal social and legal order. JEREMY BENTHAM ...

loading
A Fragment on Government 2022, Legare Street Press

ISBN-13: 9781016046985

Trade paperback

A Fragment on Government 2022, Legare Street Press

ISBN-13: 9781016042604

Hardcover

A Fragment on Government 2012, Cosimo Classics

ISBN-13: 9781616407759

Trade paperback

A Fragment on Government 2010, Nabu Press, Charleston SC

ISBN-13: 9781171962472

Trade paperback

A Fragment on Government 1980, Praeger, Westport, CT

ISBN-13: 9780313223235

Revised edition

Hardcover