Origins of order : project and system in the American legal imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kahn, Paul W., 1952- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:	Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
Subjects:	Constitutional law > United States. Constitutional law > Philosophy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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?