02733nam 22006734a 450 991077816880332120230721022312.00-674-04528-910.4159/9780674045286(CKB)1000000000786915(OCoLC)605980817(CaPaEBR)ebrary10312798(SSID)ssj0000218811(PQKBManifestationID)11208266(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218811(PQKBWorkID)10221137(PQKB)10652412(MiAaPQ)EBC3300093(DE-B1597)457806(OCoLC)1032691943(OCoLC)1043660920(OCoLC)979880382(DE-B1597)9780674045286(Au-PeEL)EBL3300093(CaPaEBR)ebr10312798(OCoLC)923109202(EXLCZ)99100000000078691520060616d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPatriots and cosmopolitans[electronic resource] hidden histories of American law /John Fabian WittCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20071 online resource (417 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-02360-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-381) and index.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.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.JudgesUnited StatesBiographyLawyersUnited StatesBiographyLawUnited StatesHistoryNationalismUnited StatesUnited StatesBiographyJudgesLawyersLawHistory.Nationalism349.73Witt John Fabian790556MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778168803321Patriots and cosmopolitans3718332UNINA