Commentaries on the Laws of England

by William Blackstone

Books that mention Commentaries on the Laws of England (4)

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: “Particularly influential were Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries, first published in America ten years earlier, which endowed British law with a more systematic coherence.”
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “He buried himself in the dog-eared pages of Blackstone’s Commentaries; he unearthed the thoughts in Chitty’s Pleadings; he analyzed precepts in Greenleaf’s Evidence and Story’s Equity Jurisprudence.”
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: “"Blackstone's Commentaries." Jem was thunderstruck.”
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn: “learned their law in the era of Blackstone's Commentaries...”