I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials

by Steve Sheppard and Associate Professor of Law Steve Sheppard

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521735084

ISBN13:9780521735087

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:306 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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