A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law
Rande W. Kostal
Abstract
A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in English politics, and of political ideas that give rise to great questions of English law. It documents how the world's most powerful and articulate political elite struggled with fundamental questions about law, morality, and power. Can a constitutional state rule a sprawling empire without breaking faith with the rule of law? Can it c ... More
Keywords: British history, colonial rebellion, rule of law, martial law, British empire, legal liberalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199551941 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199551941.001.0001 |
