1. The demystification of the law -- 2. Bentham and Beccaria -- 3. The United States of America -- 4. Natural rights : Bentham and John Stewart Mill -- 5. Bentham's "Of laws in general" -- 6. Legal duty and obligation -- 7. Legal rights -- 8. Legal powers
-- 9. Sovereignty and legally limited government -- 10. Commands and authoritative reasons.
An exposition and a critical assessment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Chapter themes include Bentham's identification of the forms of mystification protecting the law from criticism, his relation to Beccaria and his conversion to democratic radicalism.
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