A Letter To A Noble Lord; Containing Some Remarks On The Nature And Tendency Of Two Acts Past Last Session Of Last Parliament Namely, An Act For Vesting In His Majestie The Estates Of Certain Traytors, &C. And An Act For Taking Away And Abolishing The He
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.02.2021
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
36
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.2 cm
Gewicht
69 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5444-441-8
Two controversial statutes. Power, law, loyalty collide here. Addressed to a noble lord and written in the charged atmosphere of post jacobite rebellion scotland, this 18th century political pamphlet weighs the meaning of punishing treason and reshaping a nation. Focusing on the Forfeited Estates Act and the heritable jurisdictions act scotland, the unnamed author offers a pointed forfeited estates act commentary while probing how confiscated lands, abolished feudal courts and restored royal authority might recast Scottish legal life and the evolving Union. At once a Scottish legal history book and a work of political persuasion, it opens a vivid window onto eighteenth century scotland politics, where questions of loyalty, property and justice cut to the heart of the state. As a primary source edition, A Letter To A Noble Lord speaks directly from the age of the Jacobite rebellions and the early scottish enlightenment political thought, capturing contemporary unease at sweeping legal and constitutional change. Indispensable for Scottish legal historians and as a reference for political scholars, it illuminates how the abolition of heritable jurisdictions and the treatment of traitors were argued, defended and resisted in real time. Readers of British constitutional history and any Jacobite rebellion history book collection will find an essential, compact testimony to the making of modern, post-Union Scotland. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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