Patriots and cosmopolitans : hidden histories of American law /

Ranging 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 stories of five patriots and critics. In their own way, each of these individuals...

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主要作者: Witt, John Fabian (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2007.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvjsf3pv
书本目录:
  • Introduction : the features of American nationhood
  • The pyramid and the machine : founding visions in the life of James Wilson
  • Elias Hill's exodus : exit and voice in the Reconstruction nation
  • Internationalists in the nation-state : Crystal Eastman and the puzzle of American civil liberties
  • The king and the dean : Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the common-law nation
  • Epilogue : law and the national frame.