Pacta sunt servanda is a series on legal history with focuses on comparative constitutional law, international public law, and legal philosophy.
Hobbes and Foucault: the Mercantile State and the Ontology of Early Capitalis Pacta sunt servanda Volume V By Nicholas Rice YC '23 Edited by Judah Millen '24 Introduction This essay will seek to explain the ontology of early capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lens of the...
Pacta Sunt Servanda Volume IV: December 9, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice Edited by Judah Millen Introduction This essay will investigate the connections between the aesthetic and political philosophies of Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, and Immanuel Kant, arguing that we can trace in them the development of competing liberal and...
Pacta sunt servanda Volume III: July 8, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice John Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus, Oil on canvas 12' x 18', 1847, located in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC, USAIntroduction Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and Locke’s Second Treatise Concerning Government (1689) both advance political philosophies grounded in...
Pacta sunt servanda Volume II: April 1, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice The US signs the UN Charter. Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr., Secretary of State, Chairman of the delegation from the United States, signing the UN Charter at a ceremony held at the Veterans' War Memorial Building on 26 June...
Pacta sunt servanda Volume I: February 22, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice Edited by Philip Mousavizadeh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The framers of the American Constitution vested the “executive Power” (art. II, § 1, cl. 1) of the United States (U.S.) in the “Office” (art. II, § 1, cl. 2) of “a President”...
