Patriots and Cosmopolitans : : Hidden Histories of American Law / / John Fabian Witt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Witt, John Fabian,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction: The Features of American Nationhood --; One: Creations --; Two: Exits --; Three: Critiques --; Four: Reactions --; Epilogue: Law and the National Frame --; Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674045286; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674045286
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Fabian Witt.

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.