Patriots and cosmopolitans : hidden histories of American law
"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."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2007
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007
Biography
406 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780674023604, 0674023609
70179401
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