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Viscount James Bryce

1838 - 1922

About the Author

Viscount James Bryce (1838-1922) was a British jurist, historian, and statesman. From 1907 to 1913 he was England’s ambassador to the United States.

In The Library:

• author: The American Commonwealth, 2 vols. (1888)
• author: The American Commonwealth, vol. 1 (1888)
• author: The American Commonwealth, vol. 2 (1888)
• author: The Holy Roman Empire (revised ed.) (1873)
• foreword: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays (1917)
• author: Modern Democracies, 2 vols. (1921)
• author: Modern Democracies, vol.1. (1921)
• author: Modern Democracies, vol.2. (1921)
• author: The Predictions of Hamilton and Tocqueville (1887)
• author: Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 1 (1907)
• author: Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. 3 (1909)
• author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2 vols. (1901)
• author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 1 (1901)
• author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 2 (1901)

Quotations:

• James Bryce believed that the Founders intended that the American President would be “a reduced and improved copy of the English king” (1885) (2 November, 2004)
• James Bryce tries to explain to a European audience why “great men” are no longer elected to America’s highest public office (1888) (21 February, 2005)
• 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) (20 August, 2007)
• Viscount Bryce on how the President in wartime becomes “a sort of dictator” (1888) (19 February, 2012)
• James Bryce on the Party Primaries and Conventions in the American political system (1888) (5 September, 2012)