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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... institutions . In Hartz's view , there was no better evidence of the United States's liberal- ism than the practices ... institutional structures — was para- digmatic of the United States's uncompromising and world - ex- ceptional ...
... institutional capacity to carve out robust or distinc- tive traditions of its own in a world of transnational flows.8 The four yoked essays in this book — the " hidden histories " of the book's title — are loosely guided by the idea ...
... institutions of the nation- state and the sentimental attachments of identity and ideology that many call nationalism . In the United States , each of these senses of the term nationhood ( institutional and sentimental ) has been ...
... institutional change and shap- ing the political and legal imaginations of those operating in its domain . I have adopted biography as the organizing structure for the inquiry , for it is in the engagement of individual men and women ...
... institutions of American nationhood to shape and constrain the development of the American administrative state . Each of these people engaged with the American nation - state in a distinctive way . Their lives make abundantly clear ...
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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