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I do solemnly swear : the moral obligations of legal officials /
What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official - the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator - that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official - the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator - that guided Cicero and Washington and that we seem to have forgotten. Based on stories and law cases from America's founding to the present, this book examines what is good and right in law and why officials must care. This overview of official duties, from oaths to the law itself, explains how morals and law work together to create freedom and justice, and it provides useful maxims to argue for the right answer in hard cases. Important for scholars but useful for lawyers and readable by anybody, this book explains how American law ought to work. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 276 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511650451 0511650450 9780511626678 0511626673 1107190002 9781107190009 1282390791 9781282390799 9786612390791 6612390794 0511646364 9780511646362 0511532776 9780511532771 0511531869 9780511531866 0511533683 9780511533686 |