Viscount James Bryce

1838 - 1922

Titles on this disk:

• author: The American Commonwealth, vol. 1
• author: The American Commonwealth, vol. 2
• foreword: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays
• author: Modern Democracies, vol.1.
• author: Modern Democracies, vol.2.
• author: The Predictions of Hamilton and Tocqueville
• author: Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 1
• author: Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 3
• author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 1
• author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 2

Quotations:

• (20 August, 2007) Viscount Bryce reflects on how modern nation states which achieved their own freedom through struggle are not sympathetic to the similar struggles of other repressed peoples (1901)
• (21 February, 2005) James Bryce tries to explain to a European audience why “great men” are no longer elected to America’s highest public office (1888)
• (2 November, 2004) James Bryce believed that the Founders intended that the American President would be “a reduced and improved copy of the English king” (1885)

About this person:

James Bryce was a British jurist, historian, and statesman. From 1907 to 1913 he was England’s ambassador to the United States.