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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... world federation and other forms of supranational government and establishing the modern American civil liberties movement . By contrast , the self - conscious patriotism of Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School and trial lawyer ...
... world federation and other forms of supranational government and establishing the modern American civil liberties movement . By contrast , the self - conscious patriotism of Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School and trial lawyer ...
... world federation and other forms of supranational government and establishing the modern American civil liberties movement . By contrast , the self - conscious patriotism of Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School and trial lawyer ...
... world- historic importance , too . Early stages in the Manhattan Pro- ject's development of the atomic bomb — a technology that trans- formed the globe and threatens one day to destroy it — occurred in Westbeth during its years as the ...
... World Trade Center buildings less than a mile to the south . We morning voters — about a dozen in all — followed , unsure of what exactly we would see , until there it was , a large , gaping black hole in the Trade Center's north tower ...
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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