Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law

by JohnFabianWitt (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $44.54

  Ranging from the founding era to Reconstruction, this book explores the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the little-known stories of five patriots and critics. It also shows how law and constitutionalism have powerfully shaped and been shaped by the experience of nationhood at key moments in American history.