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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... history . Founding Father James Wilson's star - crossed life is testament to the capacity of American nationhood to capture the imagination of those who have lived within its orbit . For South Carolina freedman Elias Hill , the ...
... history . Founding Father James Wilson's star - crossed life is testament to the capacity of American nationhood to capture the imagination of those who have lived within its orbit . For South Carolina freedman Elias Hill , the ...
... history . Founding Father James Wilson's star - crossed life is testament to the capacity of American nationhood to capture the imagination of those who have lived within its orbit . For South Carolina freedman Elias Hill , the ...
... States Biography . 3. Law - United States - History . 4. United States - Biography . 5. Nationalism - United States . I. Title . KF353.W58 2007 349.73 - dc22 2006049505 For Annie Murphy Paul Contents Introduction : The Features of.
... history . For in addition to the attachments of the city , my fellow voters and I experienced with renewed strength the sentiments of the nation . American nationhood sprang to life and became something greater than the sum of its ...
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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