J. G. A. 波考克，生于1924年，英国政治思想史学家，美国约翰•霍普金斯大学终身教授，以对现代早期的共和主义（尤其是欧洲大陆、英国与美国的共和主义）之研究、对英国普通法历史的著述、对爱德华•吉本与其他启蒙主义历史学家的态度以及对政治话语史的贡献而著称。其他著作有：《政治、语言与时间》、《马基雅维利时刻》、《德行、商业和历史》等。

J. G. A. 波考克，生于1924年，英国政治思想史学家，美国约翰•霍普金斯大学终身教授，以对现代早期的共和主义（尤其是欧洲大陆、英国与美国的共和主义）之研究、对英国普通法历史的著述、对爱德华•吉本与其他启蒙主义历史学家的态度以及对政治话语史的贡献而著称。其他著作有：《政治、语言与时间》、《马基雅维利时刻》、《德行、商业和历史》等。

J. G. A. 波考克，生于1924年，英国政治思想史学家，美国约翰•霍普金斯大学终身教授，以对现代早期的共和主义（尤其是欧洲大陆、英国与美国的共和主义）之研究、对英国普通法历史的著述、对爱德华•吉本与其他启蒙主义历史学家的态度以及对政治话语史的贡献而著称。其他著作有：《政治、语言与时间》、《马基雅维利时刻》、《德行、商业和历史》等。

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outl...(展开全部)

A year after the publication of Dicey's LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION, William Gladstone was reading it aloud in the House of Commons, citing it as authority. It remains, to this day, a starting point for the study of the English Constitution and comparative constitutional law. THE LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the le...(展开全部)

"The Constitution is America's moral sail, and we must hold to the courage of the conviction that fills it, a conviction that we can all be equal citizens of a moral republic. That is a noble faith, and only optimism can redeem it." So writes Ronald Dworkin in the introduction to this characteristically robust and provocative new book in which Dworkin argues the fidelity to t...(展开全部)

Ronald Dworkin argues that Americans have been systematically misled about what their Constitution is, and how judges decide what it means. The Constitution, he observes, grants individual rights in extremely abstract terms. The First Amendment prohibits the passing of laws that "abridge the freedom of speech"; the Fifth Amendment insists on "due process of law"; and the Fourte...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯(Wilkie Collins)，于1824年1月8日生于伦敦，1889年9月23日死在伦敦。父亲是个风景画家。他12岁时随父母迁居意大利，三年后回国，就读于海伯里私立寄宿学校，曾在茶叶公司工作，后改学法律，在伦敦林肯法学协会当过律师。1847年，父亲死后，他才开始以写作为生。第一部作品是《威廉·柯林斯》传，不久就从事小说创作。一开始成绩平平，后来他结识了当代文豪狄更斯，成为莫逆之交，并为狄更斯主编的，当时最风行的杂志经常撰稿。他的长篇小说往往在这本杂志上先发表，然后出单行本。这期间他写了不少小说，大都以侦破犯罪事件为题材，柯林斯即以此种小说蜚声社会，享誉30余年，但他作品虽多，而得以流传后世并得到肯定的仅有《月亮宝石》和成名作《白衣女人》两部。

In a few thousand words the Constitution sets up the government of the United States and proclaims the basic human and political rights of its people. From the interpretation and elaboration of those words in over 500 volumes of Supreme Court cases comes the constitutional law that structures the United States government and defines the American people's individual relationship...(展开全部)

Charles Fried has been, by turns, advocate, judge and scholar in the field of constitutional law. He has now given us a wonderful book on the subject, a work of sparkling intelligence and moral maturity. Fried believes in the possibility of constitutional doctrine, in the careful and reasoned elaboration of constitutional principles over time. For those who think that the work ...(展开全部)