Patriots and Cosmopolitans Hidden Histories of American Law |
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| Author:
| Witt, John Fabian |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-02360-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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Ranging from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the stories of five patriots and critics., each of whom came up against the power of national institutions to shape the directions of legal change.
Ranging from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the stories of five patriots and critics., each of whom came up against the power of national institutions to shape the directions of legal change.