Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American LawHarvard University Press, 2007 M02 28 - 406 pages Ranging widely from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, John Fabian Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the little-known stories of five patriots and critics. He shows how law and constitutionalism have powerfully shaped and been shaped by the experience of nationhood at key moments in American history. |
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... African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman became one of the most articulate critics of American nationhood , advocating world federation and other forms of supranational government and establishing the modern American ...
... African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman became one of the most articulate critics of American nationhood , advocating world federation and other forms of supranational government and establishing the modern American ...
... African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman became one of the most articulate critics of American nationhood , advocating world federation and other forms of supranational government and establishing the modern American ...
... African - American police officer assigned to the 82nd Election District came alive with an improbable and panicked message . By the time I turned to leave the curtained booth ( my hastily registered votes destined never to be counted ) ...
... African - American po- lice officer ) were tied up in the technologies of nationhood . Moreover , many of my neighbors and I felt ready in those moments , and for some time thereafter , to support extraordinary things we would never ...
Contents
CREATIONS | 11 |
Founding Visions in the Life of James Wilson | 13 |
EXITS | 81 |
Exit and Voice in the Reconstruction Nation | 83 |
CRITIQUES | 153 |
Crystal Eastman and the Puzzle of American Civil Liberties | 155 |
REACTIONS | 207 |
Melvin Belli Roscoe Pound and the CommonLaw Nation | 209 |
Law and the National Frame | 277 |
Notes | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 381 |
Index | 383 |
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