Talk:Commentaries on the Laws of England
 | This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Text and/or other creative content from William Blackstone was copied or moved into Commentaries on the Laws of England on May 26, 2023. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
Analogy edit
Master: servant as employer:employee:) funny analogy. Me like.
Um it's the law, not a joke.
It should be noted, when he discusses the Rights of Husbands and Wives, it's really the Rights of Husbands until they're passing... Then it's the Rights of the King. (Pg. 139) Pseymour24 (talk) 16:50, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Quotations edit
Suggest that these should be placed in wikiqoute. James500 (talk) 10:28, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Treatment of Catholics edit
It would be interesting if the article could provide more context on Blackstone's explanation of British laws on recusant Catholics. ADM (talk) 11:03, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
- As to papists, what has been said of the Protestant dissenters would hold equally strong for a general toleration of them; provided their separation was founded only upon difference of opinion in religion, and their principles did not also extend to a subversion of the civil government. If once they could be brought to renounce the supremacy of the pope, they might quietly enjoy their seven sacraments, their purgatory, and auricular confession; their worship of relics and images; nay even their transubstantiation. But while they acknowledge a foreign power, superior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good subjects..
- — Bl. Comm. IV, c.4 ss. iii.2, p. *54
Comment on Blackstone edit
Interesting comment on Blackstone himself, seen in changes to his famous work, as worked upon by his contemporaries. Not complimentary, that. Shenme (talk) 02:05, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Size of books edit
Since much is made of how convenient the four books were, it would be good to give their six. How big were they? Wis2fan (talk) 04:18, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- I found the books on Amazon, summed the page count, and added it to the Legacy section, citing the Amazon page. JamesCurran (talk) 22:06, 13 September 2023 (UTC)