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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... idea of the nation ? I am an Ameri- can nationalist . My national identity is inescapable — not that I try to escape it . I embrace it , it embraces me . This book is an at- tempt to begin to think about what that embrace has meant in ...
... ideas and animated American legal institutions . In Hartz's view , there was no better evidence of the United States's liberal- ism than the practices of the U.S. Supreme Court , which virtu- ally alone among the courts of the world has ...
... ideas , and social forces . Of course the United States has had multiple traditions , they say . How could it be ... idea that neither of these views of American nationhood , neither the Hartzian nation of impervious law - based ...
... ideas of even those who styled themselves its critics . To be sure , the individuals whose stories make up this book sought ( some- times successfully ) to shape and reshape the nation's institutions and ideals . But such efforts were ...
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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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