Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination /
Kahn, Paul W., 1952-
Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination / Paul W. Kahn. - xvii, 325 pages ; 22 cm. - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference . - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-311) and index.
Introduction: On method, or what philosophy has to offer -- Part 1: Project and system before the Constitution -- Origins of order -- An age of suspicion -- Part 2: The constitutionalism of project -- An American legal project -- Elements of the legal project -- Part 3: System as the order of law -- System and the theory of the common law : from Blackstone to Holmes -- The rise of an unwritten constitution -- Conclusion: Has the nineteenth century ended?
9780300243413 0300243413
2019935199
Constitutional law--United States.
Constitutional law--Philosophy.
KF4550 / .K344 2019
Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination / Paul W. Kahn. - xvii, 325 pages ; 22 cm. - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference . - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-311) and index.
Introduction: On method, or what philosophy has to offer -- Part 1: Project and system before the Constitution -- Origins of order -- An age of suspicion -- Part 2: The constitutionalism of project -- An American legal project -- Elements of the legal project -- Part 3: System as the order of law -- System and the theory of the common law : from Blackstone to Holmes -- The rise of an unwritten constitution -- Conclusion: Has the nineteenth century ended?
9780300243413 0300243413
2019935199
Constitutional law--United States.
Constitutional law--Philosophy.
KF4550 / .K344 2019