Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination /
An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a sy...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : Project, system, and the legal imagination
- 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?