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William blackstone contributions to democracyWilliam Blackstone (July 10, 1723)
by Peter Mentzel
This month’s featured birthday anniversary is the English jurist and legal scholar Sir William Blackstone. He is best known for his profoundly influential Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769), which greatly influenced political and legal thinkers in both Great Britain and America well into the nineteenth century.
Among his many famous dicta was: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”
Blackstone was born into a middle class family (his father was a textile merchant) in London, the last of four children.
His father died before he was born, and his mother passed away when he was twelve, leaving him to be raised by his uncle, Thomas Biggs, a surgeon.
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He was educated at Charterhouse School and then at Pembroke College, Oxford, studying classics, logic, and mathematics. In 1743 he was elected to membership at All Souls College, Oxford, and by 1746 he had become a barrister.
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