Jean Louis Delolme was a Swiss jurist and constitutional writer. He was born at Geneva in 1740. He studied for the bar, and had begun to practise when he was obliged to emigrate on account of a pamphlet entitled Examen de trois parts de droit, which gave offence to the authorities of the town. He took refuge in England, where he lived for several years on the meagre and precarious income derived from occasional contributions to various journals.

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  • Jean Louis Delolme was a Swiss jurist and constitutional writer. He was born at Geneva in 1740. He studied for the bar, and had begun to practise when he was obliged to emigrate on account of a pamphlet entitled Examen de trois parts de droit, which gave offence to the authorities of the town. He took refuge in England, where he lived for several years on the meagre and precarious income derived from occasional contributions to various journals. In 1775 he found himself compelled to accept aid from a charitable society to enable him to return home. He died at Sewen, a village in the canton of Schwyz, on the 16th of July 1806. During his protracted exile in England Delolme made a careful study of the English constitution, the results of which he published in his Constitution de l'Angleterre (Amsterdam, 1771), of which an enlarged and improved edition in English appeared in 1772, and was several times reprinted. The work excited much interest as containing many acute observations on the causes of the excellence of the English constitution as compared with that of other countries. It is, however, wanting in breadth of view, being written before the period when constitutional questions were treated in a scientific manner. Along with a translation of Hume's History of England it supplied the philosophes with most of their ideas about the English constitution. It thus was used somewhat as a political pamphlet. Several editions were published after the authors death. Delolme also wrote in English Parallel between the English Government and the former Government of Sweden (1772); A History of the Flagellants (1782), based upon a work of Boileau's; An Essay on the Union of Scotland with England (1787), and one or two smaller works.
  • Jean Louis Delolme, auch Jean Louis de Lolme geschrieben war ein Schweizer Rechtsgelehrter. Delolme war in Genf als Anwalt tätig. Infolge des Anstoßes, den seine Schrift „Examen des trois points des droits“ erregte, musste er aus Genf flüchten. Er begab sich nach England und schrieb hier publizistische und staatsrechtliche Werke, die ihm einen geachteten Namen erwarben. 1775 kehrte er in seine Vaterstadt zurück. Sein berühmtestes Werk ist: Constitution de l’Angleterre (Amsterdam 1771), welches er selbst ins Englische (The constitution of England, or, an account of the English government; in which it is compared, both with the republican form of government, and the other monarchies in Europe, London 1772) und ins Deutsche (Die Constitution Englands in ihrer genetischen Entwicklung, Leipzig 1776) übersetzte.
  • Jean Louis Delolme, né en 1740 à Genève, mort le 16 juillet 1806 à Seewen, fut un publiciste de Genève. Il exerça la profession d'avocat dans sa patrie, puis dut s'exiler après la publication de son pamphlet Examen de trois parts de droit, ses opinions démocratiques ayant offensé les autorités de la ville (oligarchiques). Il voyagea pour étudier la constitution de divers Etats, et se fixa en Angleterre, composant des écrits politiques ou écrivant dans les journaux. Sa Constitution de l'Angleterre, publiée à Amsterdam en 1771, est un ouvrage qui fait connaître et apprécier le gouvernement de ce pays. Sa défense du système britannique est plus doctrinaire que scientifique, Delolme exprime des idées très proches de Montesquieu. Malgré son mérite, il mena pour Bouillet une vie misérable, ce qu'il dut à sa passion pour le jeu et le plaisir; il ne fréquentait que la société la moins relevée. Il accepta en 1775 l'aide d'une société charitable pour rentrer chez lui.
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  • Jean Louis Delolme was a Swiss jurist and constitutional writer. He was born at Geneva in 1740. He studied for the bar, and had begun to practise when he was obliged to emigrate on account of a pamphlet entitled Examen de trois parts de droit, which gave offence to the authorities of the town. He took refuge in England, where he lived for several years on the meagre and precarious income derived from occasional contributions to various journals.
  • Jean Louis Delolme, auch Jean Louis de Lolme geschrieben war ein Schweizer Rechtsgelehrter. Delolme war in Genf als Anwalt tätig. Infolge des Anstoßes, den seine Schrift „Examen des trois points des droits“ erregte, musste er aus Genf flüchten. Er begab sich nach England und schrieb hier publizistische und staatsrechtliche Werke, die ihm einen geachteten Namen erwarben. 1775 kehrte er in seine Vaterstadt zurück.
  • Jean Louis Delolme, né en 1740 à Genève, mort le 16 juillet 1806 à Seewen, fut un publiciste de Genève. Il exerça la profession d'avocat dans sa patrie, puis dut s'exiler après la publication de son pamphlet Examen de trois parts de droit, ses opinions démocratiques ayant offensé les autorités de la ville (oligarchiques). Il voyagea pour étudier la constitution de divers Etats, et se fixa en Angleterre, composant des écrits politiques ou écrivant dans les journaux.
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