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	William Blackstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blackstone was the posthumous son of a silk mercer in London, and received his education at Charterhouse School and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
		A bust of Blackstone is a typical ornament of a lawyer's office in early Perry Mason novels, and in Anatomy of a Murder.
		Blackstone was defending a large body of British laws, collectively known as the penal laws, which imposed various civil disabilities and legal penalties on recusant Catholics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Blackstone (709 words)

	BLACKSTONE IN AMERICA - The Early America Review, Spring 1997
		Blackstone had no illusions that he had covered every important aspect of the law adequately; his lectures and the books were designed as an introduction to the whole of the law.
		Blackstone was often in poor health, and was irritable and impatient on the bench.
		Blackstone's definition of a writ of mandamus, an order directing the state to perform at act, was a linchpin in Marbury v.
	earlyamerica.com /review/spring97/blackstone.html (3871 words)

	SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Blackstone, having been unanimously elected to the newly-founded Vinerian professorship, on the 25th of October read his first introductory lecture, afterwards prefixed to the first volume of his celebrated Commentaries.
		Blackstones defects as a jurist are more conspicuous in his treatment of the underlying principles and fundamental divisions of the law than in his account of its substantive principles.
		Blackstone by no means confines himself to the work of a legal commentator.
	68.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BL/BLACKSTONE_SIR_WILLIAM.htm (1405 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: William Blackstone
		Blackstone, who according to James Boswell in his Life of Johnson "had a bottle of port before him" during the composition of the Commentaries finding his mind "invigorated and supported in the fatigue of his great work," often lead his readers through a maze of conflicting absolutes.
		William Blackstone was born on July 10, 1723, four months after his father died.
		William Marbury, a last minute appointee of the outgoing Adams administration, sued Secretary of State James Madison seeking a writ to compel the government to carry out the appointment.
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	Blackstone, Sir William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Blackstone’s Commentaries, written in an urbane, dignified, and clear style, is regarded as the most thorough treatment of the whole of English law ever produced by one man. It demonstrated that English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent.
		Blackstone has been criticized, notably by Jeremy Bentham, for a complacent belief that, in the main, English law was beyond improvement and for his failure to analyze exactly the social and historical factors underlying legal systems.
		In his later life Blackstone resumed practice, served in Parliament, was solicitor general to the queen, and was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bl/BlackstoW.html (316 words)

	Opinions on the Subject of Negro Servitude
		Sir William Blackstone was the son of a prosperous London tradesman.
		Blackstone is most known for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, a text based on his lectures.
		Blackstone's Commentaries were quoted extensively in legal documents and court records throughout the nineteenth century and beyond.
	gateway.uvic.ca /spcoll/digit/slavery_opinion/commentary/bio_blackstone.htm (198 words)

	Blackstone Valley Tourism Council: Travel, heritage, visitors, visitor center, lodging, dining, tours, Blackstone River ...
		Blackstone soon tired of their intolerance, and moved about 35 miles south of Boston, to a hill overlooking a wide bend in what the Indians then called the Patucket (sic) River and what is today known as the Blackstone River.
		Blackstone was on good terms with Indians in both states and became good friends with Roger Williams, who, less than 2 years after Blackstone arrived in Rhode Island, settled in and founded Providence.
		Blackstone continued preaching and is considered to be the pioneer clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
	www.tourblackstone.com /about2.htm (603 words)

	Life of WILLIAM BLACKSTONE 1691-1779 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WILLIAM was far more blessed with his grandfather's traits of character and his ability to learn, for example, how to get along in the wilderness; or with the Indians, keeping good health habits, and just plain living a good clean life, than he was of his own father's traits.
		WILLIAM was now 47, and felt he had been separated long enough from his family, and having prepared a place for them, set out to bring them back with him.
		WILLIAM was finally driven out, just as his grandfather was, but not until he had vented his feelings on the injusticeness of it all, in his deposition dated October 3, 1763, as follows:
	www.dangel.net /AMERICA/Blackstone/GRANDSONWMBLACKSTONE.html (1776 words)

	in the shadow of "god's sun-dial"
		Blackstone is a "pretribulationist," believing that the entire church by its rapture escapes the ensuing chaos and disaster of seven years of tribulation which are marked by the appearance of the Antichrist, who is "the culminating manifestation of Satan" and who will rule from Jerusalem.
		Blackstone notes that Palestine used to be "a remarkably fruitful land," that "rains are increasing, and there are many evidences that the land is recovering its ancient fertility"; and that Palestine was once "the center of civilization and religion" and could become so once again.
		Blackstone also torturously explicates international law so as to prove that the Jews were never derelict in abandoning the land and that their claim to possession of Palestine remained "natural" and valid.
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-1/text/obenzinger.html (5414 words)

	Biography of the Reverend William BLACKSTONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, born in Gibside, Whickham, Durham County, England, on March 5, 1595, baptized at Horncastle Parish, Lincolnshire; parents, JOHN and AGNES HAWLEY BLACKSTONE, was to become a man of great talent, and although eccentric in many respects, managed to maintain the character of an exemplary Christian.
		REVEREND WILLIAM BLACKSTONE was 28 years old when he first arrived in the new world, and now at 30, he moved across to the North Shore and finally established himself on the western slope of the peninsular of Shawmut (Boston), opposite the mouth of the Charles River.
		WILLIAM brought with him to the new world a large collection of books, approximately 186 in various languages, etc.; however, the bull that he is portrayed riding about on had more than likely been purchased here or otherwise acquired from its original owner who had returned to England.
	www.dangel.net /AMERICA/Blackstone/REV.WM.BLACKSTONE.html (6249 words)

	Blackstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
		Jerry Blackstone - director of choirs at the University of Michigan
		Blackstone Valley, a river valley, and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackstone (155 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - William Blackstone
		Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780), British jurist and legal scholar, whose work Commentaries on the Laws of England was used for more than a...
		In 1625 William Blackstone, a former clergyman in the Church of England, became the first European to settle the narrow, irregular peninsula known to...
		In Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769), English jurist Sir William Blackstone traced the history of English common law and created a...
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	Blackstone: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir William Blackstone's (1723-1780) four-volume Commentaries on the Laws of England assures him a place in history as one of the greatest scholars of English common law.
		Blackstone was thus part of the movement to apply the systematic theories of natural science to the study of man.
		Blackstone's influence on English and American common law was profound precisely because his work is so easily comprehensible and logical in its construction.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Intros/Authors/18thC/Blackstone.html (376 words)

	Blackstone's Commentaries
		The breadth of research and simplicity of reasoning displayed by Blackstone as he earnestly constructed his work to aid the English population in comprehending their immense legal system is revered for the realization that not only did his work allow for the preservation of the freedom of English citizens, but for Americans as well.
		Blackstone solidified the point that law is a rule of action prescribed by a superior which an inferior is bound to obey.
		Blackstone continues to develop this line of reasoning when he puts forth that God “has laid down only such laws as were founded in those relations of justice that existed in the nature of things antecedent to any positive precept.”
	www.iejs.com /Law/blackstone.htm (1550 words)

	MSN Encarta - William Blackstone
		Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), British jurist and legal scholar, whose work Commentaries on the Laws of England was used for more than a century as the foundation of all legal education in Great Britain and the United States.
		Sir William Blackstone was born in London on July 10, 1723.
		In 1770 Blackstone was appointed a justice of the Court of King's Bench and shortly thereafter a justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
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	Sir William Blackstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Blackstone Institute is committed to reviving the Constitution and its Blackstonian foundations.
		Blackstone’s immeasurable influence on both English and American law was universally recognized until well into the Twentieth Century, although the “bashing of Blackstone” in America began after the Civil War.
		William Blackstone was born in 1723, several months after his father’s death.
	site.mawebcenters.com /blackstoneinstitute/sirwilliamblackstone.html (1809 words)

	Positive Liberty » Blog Archive » William Blackstone and the Founding Fathers
		They love to cite Blackstone because he famously argued that there are two laws, the laws of man and the laws of “nature”, which he took to mean the laws of God as expressed in the bible.
		In a 2002 case (the same case where he urged imprisonment and even the death penalty for homosexuals), he engaged in a long rant about the evils of homosexuality - and in a case where the fact that one party was a lesbian had no bearing on the legal question before the court.
		Under Blackstone’s way of thinking, the government could still punish someone for what they published as long as they didn’t prevent them from publishing it and this view was cited even by Supreme Court Justice James Iredell as the proper view of the first amendment’s free speech and free press clauses.
	positiveliberty.com /2006/01/william-blackstone-and-the-founding-fathers.html (3131 words)

	William E. Blackstone: God's Little Errand Boy
		Blackstone's account of the conference stated that "neither Jew nor Gentile was asked to do violence to his convictions but all were desired to remember the meekness of the Law-giver and tenderness of the Author of the Sermon on the Mount."
		William Blackstone served as chairman of the conference.
		For Blackstone, all of this effort was the outworking of one grand prophetic scheme that was highlighted by the imminent return of the Savior for His Church.
	www.amfi.org /errandboy.htm (4157 words)

	Blackstone's Commentaries
		Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), Professor of Common Law, Oxford University, was an eminent, prolific English authority on common law.
		Blackstone wrote prolifically on the laws on the England.
		Wherefore, says Blackstone, the "primary object of law is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals." Vol.
	downloads.members.tripod.com /medicolegal/blackstone.htm (708 words)

	William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)
		Blackstone's Commentaries was the first organized compendium of English law which served as a model for all legal treatises to follow.
		Blackstone was cited by American lawyers in American courts for over 75 years.
		Blackstone's Commentaries is truly one of the most influential legal treatises ever written.
	www.lawmart.com /pubs/blackstone.htm (284 words)

	Blackstone, Sir William on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM [Blackstone, Sir William] 1723-80, English jurist.
		Blackstone published his lectures as Commentaries on the Laws of England (4 vol., 1765-69), a work that reduced to order and lucidity the formless bulk of English law.
		Tessa Blackstone announces package of cultural treasures to be saved for the nation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/blackstow1.asp (472 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
		Sir William was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, who came from an old Wiltshire family, his father being a prosperous London tradesman.
		Blackstone was not, indeed, a great Civilian and did not pretend to be.
		Blackstone retired from his Professorship and Headship, in 1766, and was made a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1770.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/wblackstone.html (408 words)

	Alibris: William Blackstone
		Sir William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system.
		Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent.
		Blackstone and Oxford: An Exhibition Held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of Sir William Blackstone, 1723-1780
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/William_Blackstone (598 words)

	ADF: About Sir William Blackstone - Alliance Defense Fund - Defending Our First Liberty
		Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) was a contemporary of the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
		Blackstone called this concept “ultravari,” which means it is beyond the authority of man to write a law that violates God’s law.
		Blackstone also said that law is fixed, it is uniform, and it is universal.
	www.alliancedefensefund.org /whatwedo/default.aspx?mid=311&cid=3149 (321 words)

	William Blackstone, Sir Biography / Biography of William Blackstone, Sir Main Biography
		The famous English jurist Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) is remembered for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, the first attempt since the 13th century to provide a comprehensive treatment of English law.
		William Blackstone was born in Cheapside, London, on July 10, 1723, the posthumous son of Charles Blackstone, a merchant.
		Although he was admitted to the bar in 1746, he had limited success in practicing law and continued to hold several university posts and to lecture on English law.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-blackstone-sir (254 words)

	University of Pennsylvania Law Review: Rediscovering Blackstone. (William Blackstone's 'Commentaries')@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Blackstone's views on natural law, rights, and the relationship between individualism and community have been misrepresented and unjustly disparaged.
		Blackstone did not believe that principles of natural law could be used to deduce the answers to legal questions.
		Blackstone's 'Commentaries' were highly influential during the formative period of American law.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19225203&refid=holomed_1 (204 words)

	sir william blackstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769 …...
		Statue / monument of Sir William Blackstone in Washington DC by Sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett.
		Sir William Blackstone's pre-Revolutionary Commentaries on the Laws of England are still useful in US common law.
	www.academyhouse.bc.ca /sir-william-blackstone.html (375 words)

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