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18 - Chapter 4, Part 5

Episode 18 of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua podcast, hosted by John Henry Newman, titled "18 - Chapter 4, Part 5" was published on September 30, 2024 and runs 31 minutes.

September 30, 2024 ·31m · Apologia Pro Vita Sua

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Teoría y filosofía del conocimiento Maria Alejandra Explicación y relación de los libros filosóficos el banquete y la apología de Sócrates Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b by Jefferson Davis Loyal Books The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War.Davis spared little detail in describing every aspect of the Confederate constitution and government, in addition to which he retold in detail numerous military campaigns. Far more compelling in the views of Davis' contemporaries and to modern scholars were Davis' thoughtfully constructed arguments as to the constitutional and moral justification of the formation of the Confederacy and of the Civil War. Davis cited numerous constitutional passages, constitutional scholars, and American political leaders to prove his thesis that secession was justified.This project contains the second half of Volume 1 (of 2). (Intro modified from Wikipedi Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) by William Blackstone Loyal Books The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769.The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England has relied on precedent more than statute and codifications and has been far less amenable than the civil law, developed from the Roman law, to the needs of a treatise. The Commentaries were influential largely because they were in fact readable, and because they met a need. The work is as much an apologia for the legal system of the time as it is an explanation; even when the law was obscure, Blackstone sought to make it seem rational, just, and inevitable that things should be how
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