Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination / / Paul W. Kahn
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| Autore: |
Kahn Paul W. <1952->
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| Titolo: |
Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination / / Paul W. Kahn
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] |
| ©2019 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvii, 325 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 342.73 |
| Soggetto topico: | Constitutional law - United States |
| Constitutional law - Philosophy | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Project, System, and the Legal Imagination -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Method, Or What Philosophy Has to Offer -- Introduction -- 1. Origins of Order -- 2. An Age of Suspicion -- Introduction -- 3. An American Legal Project -- 4. Elements of the Legal Project -- Introduction -- 5. System and the Theory of the Common Law: From Blackstone to Holmes -- 6. The Rise of an Unwritten Constitution -- Conclusion: Has the Nineteenth Century Ended? -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered. Paul W. Kahn shows how project and system have long been at work in our theological and philosophical tradition. Against this background, Kahn explains the development of the modern legal imagination in the nineteenth century as a movement from project to system. Americans began the century imagining the constitutional order as their common project: a deliberate construction of We the People. They ended the century imagining that order is continuous with the common law: an immanent development of the principles of civilization. This imaginative shift affected ideas of legal text, sovereignty, citizenship, interpretation, history, and science. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Origins of order |
| ISBN: | 0-300-24944-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808324303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.