 | Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking by D.Q. McInerny
Buy used from: $7.72 Before you can study philosophy and/or law you must work on being logical.
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 | The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.07 I have only read parts, but it is still recommended.
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 | Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas
Buy new: $12.30 / Used from: $2.19 Before you read a Thomist, read Thomas first---he's easier to understand.
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 | Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series) by John Finnis
Buy new: $47.87 / Used from: $17.10 Finnis is one of the premier legal philosophers of the present day.
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 | Clash Of Orthodoxies: Law Religion & Morality In Crisis by Robert P. George
Buy used from: $1.76 What I have read from George is really impressive. He's convincing and lucid.
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 | In Defense of Natural Law by Robert P. George
Buy new: $40.50 / Used from: $24.57 In one of the essays, George explains the Grisez-FInnis-Boyle natural law position better than they do.
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 | Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $6.92 There are some good essays in here.
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 | Students Guide To The Study Of Law (Guides To Major Disciplines) by Gerard V. Bradley
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.98 Gerard Bradley is a good choice for an introduction to law.
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 | The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics) by Alexander Hamilton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.88 This made me a Madison fan.
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 | Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $2.25 Bork left a good impression on me about being a lawyer.
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 | Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life: Celebrating the Beauty of Being by William E. May
Buy used from: $4.95 Bioethics and its relationship with the law is such an important issue today.
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 | The King's Good Servant but God's First : The Life and Writings of Saint Thomas More by James Monti
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $11.99 Great book about the patron saint of lawyers. It shows that even lawyers can be saints!
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 | The Anti-Federalist: An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $2.50 Jeffersonians and more. Storing is an authority on the AFs.
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 | Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition by Harold J. Berman
Buy new: $27.53 / Used from: $12.40 This book shows, among other things, the tremendous contribution of the Catholic Church in Western legal systems.
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 | The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
Buy used from: $16.00 We read this book in one of my Constitutional Law seminars. It shows what societies and cultures influenced our American understaning of ordered liberty, and how.
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 | Socratic Logic 2E by Peter Kreeft
Buy used from: $19.96 For those who have much more time to delve into logic than the shorter version by McInerny above.
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 | Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $16.23 It's called Originalism, not Strict Construction.
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