1 option
Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination / Paul W. Kahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahn, Paul W., 1952- author.
- Series:
- Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- United States.
- Constitutional law--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 325 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: On method, or what philosophy has to offer
- Part 1: Project and system before the Constitution
- Origins of order
- An age of suspicion
- Part 2: The constitutionalism of project
- An American legal project
- Elements of the legal project
- Part 3: System as the order of law
- System and the theory of the common law : from Blackstone to Holmes
- The rise of an unwritten constitution
- Conclusion: Has the nineteenth century ended?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300243413
- 0300243413
- OCLC:
- 1090013465
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.