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I do solemnly swear

the moral obligations of legal officials

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An edition of I do solemnly swear (2009)

I do solemnly swear

the moral obligations of legal officials

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"What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official -- the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator -- that guided Cicero and Washington and that we seem to have forgotten. Based on stories and law cases from America's founding to the present, this book examines what is good and right in law and why officials must care. This overview of official duties, from oaths to the law itself, explains how morals and law work together to create freedom and justice, and it provides useful maxims to argue for the right answer in hard cases. Important for scholars but useful for lawyers and readable by anybody, this book explains how American law ought to work." -- Publisher's description.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
276

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Subjects

Administrative responsibility, Law, Law and ethics, Legal ethics, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Law

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United States
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I do solemnly swear: the moral obligations of legal officials
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Law and office
The stakes : the interests of others in official actions
Officials' obligations arise from more than the law alone
The moral obligations of legal officials
Patterns of relationship between legal and moral obligations.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge [UK], New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
174/.30973
Library of Congress
KF306 .S52 2009, KF306.S52 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
276

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OL22653260M
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9780521513685, 9780521735087
LCCN
2008044180
OCLC/WorldCat
262941881
Library Thing
8628935
Goodreads
6846108

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