How to Legislate With Wisdom and Eloquence
Subtitle: The Art of Legislation Reconstructed from The rhetorical Tradition
Publisher: Luis Alberto Marchili
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 333
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Prologue; title: Chapter I Introduction; title: 1.    Object; title: 2.    Method; title: 3.    Denominations; title: 4.    Definition; title: 5.    Expository plan; title: Part I: History; title: Chapter II Ancient and Medieval History; title: 1.    Ancient history; title: a.    Orient; title: Mesopotamian codes; title: Ptahhotep and Merikare; title: Confucius; title: The School of the legists; title: Manu, Kautiliya and Asoka; title: b.    Greece; title: Onomacritus; title: Seven wise men; title: Foreign legislators; title: Orators and sophists; title: Protagoras; title: Isocrates, Plato and Aristotle; title: Callimacus; title: c.    Rome; title: Law of the XII Tables; title: Orators, sophists and bureaucrats; title: Cicero; title: 2.    Medieval history; title: a.    Boethius and Cassiodorus; title: b.    Isidore of Seville; title: c.    Alcuin; title: d.    Ars dictaminis; title: Alberico di Montecassino and Giovanni di Gaeta; title: Alberto di Morra; title: Boncompagno da Signa; title: Rolandino Passagieri; title: Giovanni di Bonandrea; title: e.    Ars arengandi; title: Guido Fava, Matteo de´Libri and Albertano da Brescia; title: f.    The education of the Podestá; title: Oculus Pastoralis; title: Liber de Regimine Civitatum; title: Li Livres dou Trésor; title: g.    The Humanists; title: Coluccio Salutati; title: Leonardo Bruni; title: Lorenzo Valla; title: Chapter III Modern and Contemporary History; title: 1.    Modern history; title: a.    Bacon; title: b.    Hopper; title: c.    Montesquieu; title: d.    Mably; title: e.    Filangieri; title: 2.    Contemporary history; title: a.    Bentham; title: b.    Later; title: Part II: System; title: Chapter IV Legislative Genres; title: 1.    Prescriptive speeches; title: a.    Systematizing genre; title: Juridical system; title: Systematizing laws; title: External systematizing laws; title: Arranged texts; title: Compilations; title: Digests; title: Internal sistematizing laws; title: Institutional laws; title: Consolidations; title: Codifications; title: b.    Fragmentary genre; title: Casuistic laws; title: Laws of principles; title: Amending laws; title: Spatial validity; title: Temporal validity; title: Suspension; title: Extension in time; title: Repeal; title: Tacit repeal; title: Express repeal; title: Amendement method; title: Textual amending laws; title: Suppression; title: Addition; title: Substitution; title: Division; title: Reunion; title: Transposition; title: Not-textual amending laws; title: 2.    Persuasive speeches; title: a.    Species; title: Preambles; title: The “Whereas” section; title: Exposition of Motives; title: Messages and Reports; title: Notes; title: Epilogues; title: b.    Refutation of certain frequent objections; title: c.    Need for persuasive speeches; title: Chapter V Investigation; title: 1.    Previous instructions; title: 2.    Previous knowledge; title: a.    The State of the cause; title: b.    Defensibility; title: Easy Defensibility; title: Difficult  Defensibility; title: Doubtful Defensibility; title: c.    Determination of the legislative genre and its species; title: 3.    Instruments; title: 4.    Promptuary of the things to say; title: a.    Forms; title: b.    Double reasons (dissoi logoi); title: c.    The colors of good and evil; title: d.    Topics; title: e.    Sophisms; title: 5.    Topics; title: a.    Public opinion; title: b.    Opinion of the interested sectors; title: c.    Opinion of the experts; title: d.    Legislation; title: e.    Custom; title: f.     Case Law; title: g.    Juristic Writings; title: h.    Character of the legislator (ethos); title: i.     Hope and fear of the recipients of the laws (pathos); title: j.     Reasonableness of legislative speeches (logos); title: Legislative examples; title: Legislative enthymemes; title: Legislative definitions; title: Conceptual definitions; title: Nominal definitions; title: Mixed definitions; title: Persuasive definitions; title: Genres; title: Species; title: Similarities; title: Differences; title: Contrarieties; title: Concomitances; title: Precedent, consequent and incompatible; title: Causes; title: Effects; title: Comparisons; title: Possibility; title: Feasibility; title: Probability; title: Necessity; title: Opportunity; title: Merit; title: Justice; title: Expediency; title: Juridical security; title: Harmonization of the justice, the expediency and the juridical security; title: 6.    Sophisms; title: a.    Sophisms in general; title: Sophisms that depend on the language only to cause deceit; title: Sophism of excessive vagueness; title: Sophism of semantic ambiguity (homonymy); title: Sophism of syntactic ambiguity (amphibology); title: Sophism of combination; title: Sophism of division; title: Sophism of accentuation (more properly, ambiguity only in the; title: writing speech with regard to the oral speech); title: Sophism of the expression form (or word figure); title: Sophisms that do not depend on the language only to cause deceit; title: Sophism of the accident; title: Sophism of the absolute and not absolute sense; title: Sophism of the begging the question; title: Sophism of the consequent; title: Sophism of a cause that is not a cause; title: Sophism of several questions in only one; title: Sophism of ignorance of the refutation; title: b.    Legislative sophisms in the wide sense; title: Deliberative sophisms; title: Sophisms that intended to postpone the debate (dilatory); title: Sophism of the quietist; title: Sophism of false consolation; title: Sophism of the most opportune future; title: Sophism of gradualism; title: Sophism of the distraction maneuver; title: Sophism of the Danger; title: Sophisms intended to confuse the debate (confusionist); title: Sophism of the only word that implies approval or; title: rejection (epithet); title: Sophism of the impostor term (euphemism); title: Sophism of vague generalities; title: Sophism of the Allegorical idols; title: Sophism of the Popular corruption; title: Sophism of the antithinkers; title: Sophism of the paradoxical affirmations; title: Sophism of the confusion of the obstacle with the cause; title: Sophism of the Bias; title: Sophism of the end that justifies the means; title: Sophism of the universal opponent; title: Sophism of the rejection instead of the modification; title: Sophisms intended to prevent the debate (impedimental); title: Sophism of the wisdom of our ancestors; title: Sophism of the absence of precedents; title: Sophism of the irrevocable laws; title: Sophism of the laudatory personalities; title: Legislative sophisms in the strict sense; title: Sophism of the oligarchy; title: Sophism of the ochlocracy; title: Counter example: Refutation of two previous sophisms; title: Chapter VI Systematics; title: 1.     Prescriptive speeches; title: a.    Natural order; title: b.    Artificial order; title: Parts of the speech; title: Elaboration of the expository plan; title: 2 .    Persuasive speeches; title: a.    Exordium; title: Direct exordiums; title: Indirect exordiums; title: Virtues and vices of the exhordium; title: b.    Agon; title: Narration; title: Digression, proposition and division; title: Confirmation; title: Refutation; title: Refutation of the criticism to the bill proposed; title: Refutation of other positions; title: c.    Epilogue; title: Enumeration of the arguments; title: Emotional appeals; title: Hope and fear; title: Amplification and attenuation; title: Chapter VII Style; title: 1.    Virtues; title: a.    Purity; title: b.    Clarity; title: Common words; title: Proper words; title: c.    Ornament; title: Election of words, tropes and other figures of  speech; title: Words; title: Tropes; title: Metaphors (fictions); title: Metonymies (presumptions and alterations); title: Synecdoches; title: Syllepses; title: Other figures of speech; title: Figures of words; title: Figures of thought; title: Mixed figures; title: Composition of sentences; title: Degrees of elaboration; title: Free sentence; title: Coordinate sentence; title: Periodic sentence; title: Placement of words; title: Order; title: Junction; title: Rhythm; title: d.    Aptitude; title: 2.    Style Genres; title: a.    Plain style; title: b.    Middle style; title: c.	 Elevated style; title: Epilogue; title: Select Bibliography; title: Index