Book contents
- Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification
- Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Democracy
- Part II Law and the Courts
- Part III Codification
- 12 Ending at the Beginning
- 13 Bentham’s Constitutional Code and His Pannomion
- 14 Bentham’s Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Bentham’s Constitutional Code and His Pannomion
from Part III - Codification
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
- Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification
- Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Democracy
- Part II Law and the Courts
- Part III Codification
- 12 Ending at the Beginning
- 13 Bentham’s Constitutional Code and His Pannomion
- 14 Bentham’s Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Bentham aspired to be the ‘legislator of the world’. At first, his aim was for the Pannomion to serve as a complete code of laws, consisting of the constitutional code, civil code, penal code, and procedural code. He tried to convince many countries to adopt his system. There have been many criticisms of Bentham’s theory of codification, some of which can be answered by examining his constitutional code. In this chapter, I will discuss two categories of criticism.
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- Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification , pp. 315 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022