Bentham’s Unsettled Conception of Constitutional Law
from Part II - Law and the Courts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
No domain of the law seems to have escaped Bentham’s reformatory activity. Based on a self-proclaimed ‘genius for legislation’,1 his ambition was to create a ‘complete body of laws’ or a pannomion.2 Within this project, constitutional law especially deserves attention. Bentham was concerned with that domain from the very beginning of his career, which started with a criticism of the philosophy of human rights3 and the resounding A Fragment on Government,4 and which ended with Constitutional Code.5
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