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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... individual men and women with the American national tradition that the limits and varieties of American nationhood become apparent . As Alexander Hamil- ton rightly anticipated in 1787 , a critically important element of American ...
... individuals such as charismatic plaintiffs ' lawyer and " King of Torts " Melvin Belli and former dean of the Harvard Law School Roscoe Pound mobilized the ideals and the institutions of American nationhood to shape and constrain 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 again and again made in the im- age of the nation they purported to alter ...
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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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