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 - 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 211 Epilogue : Law and the National Frame 279 Notes ...
... nation - state . Even our racial and ethnic identities ( witness the African - American po- lice officer ) were tied up in the technologies of nationhood . Moreover , many of my neighbors and I felt ready in those moments , and for some ...
Hidden Histories of American Law John Fabian Witt. tinctive among nation - states in that law has not merely defined ... state around the globe , a robust national identity rests on a foundation of constitutive legal texts . The ...
... nation - states were never more than " leaky containers " of people , ideas , and social forces . Of course the United States has had multiple traditions , they say . How could it be otherwise in a world in which the nation - state ...
... nation successfully . This is the theme of boundedness . As I use the term here , nationhood consists of at least two re- lated phenomena . It encompasses the institutions of the nation- state and the sentimental attachments of identity ...
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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