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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455124003321

Autore

Witt John Fabian

Titolo

Patriots and cosmopolitans [[electronic resource] ] : hidden histories of American law / / John Fabian Witt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-04528-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Disciplina

349.73

Soggetti

Judges - United States

Lawyers - United States

Law - United States - History

Nationalism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.