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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... United States gave way to a quest for a black nationhood of his own on the West African coast . Greenwich Village radical Crystal Eastman became one of the most articulate critics of American nationhood , advocating world federation and ...
... United States - Biography . 2. Lawyers - United 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 ...
... United States stands out as distinctively organized around law . To be sure , nation- states around the world are defined in significant part by the norms and conventions of the law of nations , or " international law " as Jeremy ...
... United States , law and constitutionalism have also created a people , the " We the People " of the U.S. ... United States and the American nation have distinctively legal and constitutional foun- dations . Unlike descent or kin - based ...
... United States has thus imagined itself from the outset as both distinct and universal at the same time . Indeed , those who focus on the United States's universal ideals sometimes deny that the United States counts as a nation at all ...
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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