Bentham Versus Blackstone

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Econ Journal Watch, 2020, vol. 17, issue 1, 256–269

Abstract: Gertrude Himmelfarb considers Jeremy Bentham’s A Fragment on Government, published in 1776, which she describes as a critique of seven pages of the introduction of William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in four volumes 1765–1770. Himmelfarb writes, “What Blackstone and the Founding Fathers had in common, and what Bentham notably lacked, was a large tolerance for complexity.” The essay is republished by permission, having appeared in The American Scholar in 1978 and, with revisions, in Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians in 1986.

Keywords: Montesquieu; William Eden; Daniel Boorstin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 B12 B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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