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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... South Carolina freedman Elias Hill , the nineteenth- century saga of black citizenship in the United States gave way to a quest for a black nationhood of his own on the West African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman ...
... South Carolina freedman Elias Hill , the nineteenth- century saga of black citizenship in the United States gave way to a quest for a black nationhood of his own on the West African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman ...
... South Carolina freedman Elias Hill , the nineteenth- century saga of black citizenship in the United States gave way to a quest for a black nationhood of his own on the West African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman ...
... South Carolina Baptist minister named Elias Hill and thousands of other freedpeople wondered long and hard whether to commit themselves to an America that had enslaved them and barred them from citizenship . In the 1910s , politically ...
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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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