Principes ou élémens du droit politique.

Door: Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques.

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• Uitgever: Ouvrage posthume. Publié complet our la première fois. A Lausanne : chez François Grasset, 1784. Contemp. halfvellum binding. [2],537 pp. 17x10.5 cm. Occas. light browning & foxing. Very good copy. Conditie: goed
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• Extra informatie: - Later augmented edition, first published in 1747. Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748) was a Genevan legal and political theorist who popularised a number of ideas propounded by other thinkers. At 25 he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the University of Geneva. His main works were Principes du droit naturel (1747) and Principes du droit politique (1751). Burlamaqui's style is simple and clear, and his arrangement of the material good. His fundamental principle may be described as rational utilitarianism and represents a digest of the thoughts of like-minded theorists, particularly Richard Cumberland and Hugo Grotius. His vision of constitutionalism had a major influence on the American Founding Fathers: "Early American thought also drew on ideas circulating on the Continent. The author who played the greatest part in transmitting those ideas over the Atlantic was the Swiss writer Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, now almost forgotten, but at one time a best-selling author." For example, his understanding of checks and balances was much more sophisticated and practical than that of Montesquieu, in part because Burlamaqui's theory contained the seed of judicial review. Higgs 2849; ESS II,76.
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