{"product_id":"2940011925849","title":"A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations","description":"This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the great questions of morality, of politics, and of municipal law, it is the object of this science to deliver only those fundamental truths of which the particular application is as extensive as the whole private and public conduct of men; to discover those \"fountains of justice,\" without pursuing the \"streams\" through the endless variety of their course. But another part of the subject is treated with greater fullness and minuteness of application; namely, that important branch of it which professes to regulate the relations and intercourse of states, and more especially, both on account of their greater perfection and their more immediate reference to use, the regulations of that intercourse as they are modified by the usages of the civilized nations of Christendom. Here this science no longer rests in general principles. That province of it which we now call the law of nations, has, in many of its parts, acquired among our European nations much of the precision and certainty of positive law, and the particulars of that law are chiefly to be found in the works of those writers who have treated the science of which I now speak. It is because they have classed (in a manner which seems peculiar to modern times) the duties of individuals with those of nations, and established their obligation on similar grounds, that the whole science has been called, \"The Law of Nature and Nations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir James Mackintosh (24 October 1765 – 30 May 1832) was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis Vindiciae Gallicae was the verdict of a philosophic Liberal on the development of the French Revolution up to the spring of 1791. The excesses of the revolutionaries compelled him a few years later to oppose them and agree with Burke, but his earlier defence of the rights of man is a valuable statement of the cultured Whig's point of view at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe width of his intellectual sympathies, joined to a constitutional indecision and vis inertiae, prevented him from doing more enduring work. His History of the Revolution in England, breaking off at the point where William of Orange is preparing to intervene in the affairs of England, is chiefly interesting because of Macaulay's admiring essay on it and its author. ---From Wikipedia","brand":"WHITE DOG PUBLISHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080965046512,"sku":"2940011925849","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011925849_p0.jpg?v=1763551454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011925849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}