Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: Thomas Jefferson had the idea, and he was the first to act upon it.'In 1779, as Governor of Virginia, he caused the governing board of the College of William and Mary 2 to establish a professorship of "Law and Police." 3 His purpose was to provide moral training to fit an elite responsible for political leadership in a new republic.Jefferson was not alone in the thought.His generation of Americans had read and absorbed Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws as
Author: Paul D. Carrington
Institution: Duke University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1485726735