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Viscount James Bryce
1838 - 1922
Nationality:
Scottish
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
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.
Titles:
- Author: The American Commonwealth, 2 vols.
- Author: The American Commonwealth, vol. 1
- Author: The American Commonwealth, vol. 2
- Author: The Holy Roman Empire
- Foreword: Magna Carta Commemoration Essays
- Author: Modern Democracies, 2 vols.
- 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, 2 vols.
- Author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 1
- Author: Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 2
Quotations:
- James Bryce believed that the Founders intended that the American President would be "a reduced and improved copy of the English king" (1885)
- James Bryce tries to explain to a European audience why "great men" are no longer elected to America's highest public office (1888)
- 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)
- Viscount Bryce on how the President in wartime becomes "a sort of dictator" (1888)
- James Bryce on the Party Primaries and Conventions in the American political system (1888)
- James Bryce on the autocratic oligarchy which controls the party machine in the American democratic system (1921)