Patriots and cosmopolitans : hidden histories of American law / John Fabian Witt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witt, John Fabian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

Law--United States--History.

Law.

Nationalism--United States.

Nationalism.

United States--Biography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 came up against the power of American national institutions to shape the directions of legal change.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-381) and index.

ISBN:

9780674045286

0674045289

OCLC:

605980817