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020			_a9781107198159 (hardback)
041			_aEnglish.
082	0	0	_a328.73077 _bMAX-F
100	1		_aMaxeiner, James, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFailures of American methods of lawmaking in historical and comparative perspectives / _cJames R. Maxeiner ; with a forward by Philip K. Howard.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2018.
300			_axxix, 336p. _billustrations ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWhat Americans sought -- What Americans got : deranged laws -- What Americans can do : improve legal methods.
520			_aIn 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			_aEnglish.
650		0	_aLegislation _zUnited States _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aParliamentary practice _zUnited States _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLaw _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aParliamentary practice _zGermany.
650		0	_aLegislation _vComparative studies.
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