Story of the law

By:

"Wormesr, Rene A."

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Simon and Schuster; 1962Description: 606 pSubject(s):

Law story

DDC classification:

340.09 WOR

Summary: The fascinating story unfolded in this volume begins before the Ten Com mandments, covers many centuries and many civilizations, and includes events as recent as the New Frontier and the Eichmann trial. For The Story of the Law tells the entire history of man's search for jus tice and of the great men who led that search throughout the long process of evolution of which our own democ racy is the end product. The creation of laws involves far more than just the work of legislators. Religious and military leaders, philos ophers, presidents, dictators, and fanatics have all played their part. So the pages of The Story of the Law are filled with the names and deeds of famous men in many areas: Moses, Jesus, Socrates, Cicero, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Charlemagne, Francis Bacon, Martin Luther, Vol- taire, Napoleon, Karl Marx, Hitler. Here, too, are the great leaders of the many shades of American legal thought and action, from Hamilton,

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	340.09 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		10089

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The fascinating story unfolded in this volume begins before the Ten Com mandments, covers many centuries and many civilizations, and includes events as recent as the New Frontier and the Eichmann trial.

For The Story of the Law tells the entire history of man's search for jus tice and of the great men who led that search throughout the long process of evolution of which our own democ racy is the end product.

The creation of laws involves far more than just the work of legislators. Religious and military leaders, philos ophers, presidents, dictators, and fanatics have all played their part. So the pages of The Story of the Law are filled with the names and deeds of famous men in many areas: Moses, Jesus, Socrates, Cicero, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Charlemagne, Francis Bacon, Martin Luther, Vol- taire, Napoleon, Karl Marx, Hitler. Here, too, are the great leaders of the many shades of American legal thought and action, from Hamilton,

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