02818nam 22007214a 450 991097155080332120200520144314.09780674045286067404528910.4159/9780674045286(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(Perlego)1133519(EXLCZ)99100000000078691520060616d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPatriots and cosmopolitans hidden histories of American law /John Fabian Witt1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20071 online resource (417 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674023604 0674023609 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 Fabian790556MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971550803321Patriots and cosmopolitans4357121UNINA