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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... Nation 85 THREE : CRITIQUES 155 Internationalists in the Nation - State : Crystal Eastman and the Puzzle of American Civil Liberties 157 FOUR : REACTIONS 209 The King and the Dean : Melvin Belli , Roscoe Pound , and the Common - Law ...
... nation's capital , we were instantly and deeply connected by bonds of shared na- tional identity with millions of people we would never meet . Here was the imagined community of which students of nation- alism write , experienced with ...
... nation . I am not certain I am so ready to contemplate them again now , but who's to say that another such crisis would not prompt the same overriding commitment to the idea of the nation ? I am an Ameri- can nationalist . My national ...
... nation - state around the globe , a robust national identity rests on a foundation of constitutive legal texts . The interpretation of these texts — the Constitution and the Bill of Rights — has been vested chiefly in the nation's ...
... nation's adherence to universal truths appli- cable to all mankind . The 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 ...
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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