Securities Against Misrule and Other Constitutional Writings for Tripoli and Greece

by Bentham, Jeremy; Schofield, Philip; Rosen, F.

• ISBN13: 9780198227250
• ISBN10: 0198227256
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-17
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This is a collection of Bentham's essays, dating mainly from late 1822 and early 1823, concerning his attempts to draw up legislation for one Islamic state, and offer advice to another in the process of throwing off Islamic rule. The writings for Tripoli include the famous "Securities Against Misrule," as well as discussion of the social, political, and religious institutions of the country. The writings for Greece include a rare commentary on the first Greek constitution of 1822, and advice and warnings to the Greek legislators against the temptation of "sinister appetites." Both groups of writings emphasize the efficacy of representative institutions and the publicity of official actions in preventing the abuse of governmental power.

Table of Contents

Symbols and abbreviations

Editorial introduction

Writings For Tripoli

Some account of the state of Tripoli on the Barbary Coast in North Africa

Securities against misrule

Preliminary explanations

Letters from Jeremy Bentham and Hassuna D'Ghies to John Quincy Adams

Writings For Greece

Greece

Principles of legislation as to constitutional law

Jeremy Bentham to Greek legislators

Observations by an Englishman on a passage in Raffanel's Histoire des Tven

Tments de la GrTce

Constitutional code

Matter occasioned by Greece

Constitutional code

Index of subjects

Index of names

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