Bentham on democracy, courts, and codification
Drawing upon original manuscripts and The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, this collection represents the latest scholarship on Bentham's late and mature thought on constitutional law. The contributions cover a diverse range of major topics, from official aptitude or competency to the interes...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2022
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Intellectual aptitude and the general interest in Bentham's democratic thought / Philip Schofield
- Bentham, democracy, free government, and the relationship between rulers and ruled / Michael Quinn
- The interests of women in Bentham's late constitutional thoughts / Emmanuelle de Champs
- Religion and judgment in Bentham's political thoughts / Tsin Yen Koh
- Organising the utilitarian state : the official aptitude of functionaries / Malik Bozzo-Rey
- Bentham on the corruption of democracy / Brian Chien-Kang Chen
- The people's 'greatest misfortune' and 'all the chance the people have' : Bentham on the separation of powers / Xiaobo Zhai
- Between constructivism and immanentism : Bentham's unsettled conception of constitutional law / Guillaume Tusseau
- A genius for legislation Bentham's 'art and science' of legislation and modern legisprudence / Francesco Ferraro
- Indirect legislation in Bentham's late constitutional writings / Anne Brunon-Ernst
- Bentham, courts and democracy / David Lieberman
- Ending at the beginning : law and political theory in 'pannomial fragments' / Stephen Engelmann
- Bentham's constitutional code and his pannomion / Michihiro Kaino
- Bentham's cosmopolitan constitutionalism / Peter Niesen