Abstract
Professor Harold Berman has presented the fascinating thesis that a people's religion influences their laws and that the Puritan religious revolution of seventeenth century England introduced Calvinist ideas into Anglo-American jurisprudence. I fully agree with Professor Berman's observations that religious beliefs and a sense of moral obligation to others are some of the motivations of, or at least influences upon, legal growth. Economic aggrandizement is not the only motivation of the human race. Religion has had a direct effect upon social and political institutions.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1984
Recommended Citation
W. Hamilton Bryson, Legal Growth Through Evolution: Comment on Puritan Revolution and English Law, 18 Val. U. L. Rev. 643 (1984).