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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... Pound of Harvard Law School and trial lawyer Melvin Belli aimed to stave off what Pound and Belli saw as the dangerous growth of a foreign administrative state . ( continued on back flap ) 1 H RANGING WIDELY from the founding era to ...
... Pound of Harvard Law School and trial lawyer Melvin Belli aimed to stave off what Pound and Belli saw as the dangerous growth of a foreign administrative state . ( continued on back flap ) $ 29.95 RANGING WIDELY from the founding era to ...
... Pound of Harvard Law School and trial lawyer Melvin Belli aimed to stave off what Pound and Belli saw as the dangerous growth of a foreign administrative state . ( continued on back flap ) Patriots and Cosmopolitans This One.
... Belli , Roscoe Pound , and the Common - Law Nation 211 Epilogue : Law and the National Frame 279 Notes Acknowledgments Index 287 383 385 Illustrations Fort Wilson , watercolor by Benjamin Evans 18 Giovanni.
... 1910 171 Woman's Peace Party demonstration , circa 1916 , New York City 186 Melvin Belli and Roscoe Pound 216 Introduction : The features of American Nationhood This book is Introduction: The Features of American Nationhood.
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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