Patriots and cosmopolitans
Subtitle: hidden histories of American law
By: John Fabian Witt.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780674023604
Description: "Ranging widely 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 little-known stories of five patriots and critics. He shows how law and constitutionalism have powerfully shaped and been shaped by the experience of nationhood at key moments in American history."--BOOK JACKET.