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Patriots and Cosmopolitans : Hidden Histories of American Law.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674045286
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Patriots and CosmopolitansDDC classification:
  • 349.73
LOC classification:
  • KF353
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Features of American Nationhood -- ONE: CREATIONS -- The Pyramid and the Machine: Founding Visions in the Life of James Wilson -- TWO: EXITS -- Elias Hill's Exodus: Exit and Voice in the Reconstruction Nation -- THREE: CRITIQUES -- Internationalists in the Nation-State: Crystal Eastmanand the Puzzle of American Civil Liberties -- FOUR: REACTIONS -- The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound,and the Common-Law Nation -- Epilogue: Law and the National Frame -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Ranging from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the stories of five patriots and critics., each of whom came up against the power of national institutions to shape the directions of legal change.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Features of American Nationhood -- ONE: CREATIONS -- The Pyramid and the Machine: Founding Visions in the Life of James Wilson -- TWO: EXITS -- Elias Hill's Exodus: Exit and Voice in the Reconstruction Nation -- THREE: CRITIQUES -- Internationalists in the Nation-State: Crystal Eastmanand the Puzzle of American Civil Liberties -- FOUR: REACTIONS -- The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound,and the Common-Law Nation -- Epilogue: Law and the National Frame -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Ranging from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the stories of five patriots and critics., each of whom came up against the power of national institutions to shape the directions of legal change.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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