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01963cam a2200241 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781107198159 (hardback) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English. |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
328.73077 |
| Item number |
MAX-F |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Maxeiner, James, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Failures of American methods of lawmaking in historical and comparative perspectives / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
James R. Maxeiner ; with a forward by Philip K. Howard. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xxix, 336p. |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
What Americans sought -- What Americans got : deranged laws -- What Americans can do : improve legal methods. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this book, James R. Maxeiner takes on the challenge of demonstrating that historically American law makers did consider a statutory methodology as part of formulating laws. In the nineteenth century, when the people wanted laws they could understand, lawyers inflicted judge-made, statute-destroying, common law on them. Maxeiner offers the cure for common law, in the form of sensible statute law. Building on this historical evidence, Maxeiner shows how rule-making in civil law jurisdictions in other countries makes for a far more equitable legal system. Sensible statute laws fit together: one statute governs, as opposed to several laws that even lawyers have trouble disentangling. In a statute law system, lawmakers make laws for the common good in sensible procedures, and judges apply sensible laws and do not make them. This book shows how such a system works in Germany and how it would be a solution for the American legal system as well. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Legislation |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
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| Topical Term |
Parliamentary practice |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Law |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
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Parliamentary practice |
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Germany. |
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| Topical Term |
Legislation |
| Form subdivision |
Comparative studies. |
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Books |
