Harvard Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 5. (Jan., 1900), pp. 344-357. Bentham and the Codifiers Charles Noble Gregory University of Wisconsin. In the same year in which our Declaration of Independence, written by a disciple of French thought, was adopted by the representatives of the colonies, there was published anonymously in London a pamphlet entitled “A Fragment on Government,” or, as it has been called, “A Comment on the Commentaries.” It attracted extraordinary attention and was attributed to the most eminent lawyers and statesmen of the time, as Lord Mansfield , Lord Camden , or Mr. Dunning , later Lord Ashburton . Its real author was Jeremy Bentham, a young barrister, the son of a prosperous attorney, and it was the beginning, not of official or financial advancement, but of a great fame and a great influence. The pamphlet in question was in the nature of a declaration of independence of professional tradition, and took the form of a severe criticism on the Commentaries of B...
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