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Format: 1 online resource (344 pages).

ISBN: 9780300249446 (e-book)

Series Statement: Yale law library series in legal history and reference

Additional Edition: Print version: Kahn, Paul W. Origins of order : project and system in the american legal imagination. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2019 ISBN 9780300243413

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: xvii, 325 Seiten , 22 cm

ISBN: 9780300243413 , 0300243413

Series Statement: Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference

Content: 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?

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-311) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Kahn, Paul W., 1952 - Origins of Order New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780300249446

Language: English

Keywords: USA ; Verfassungsrecht ; Rechtsphilosophie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (xvii, 325 pages).

ISBN: 0-300-24944-6

Series Statement: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

Content: 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 system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the latter, discovered.   Paul W. Kahn shows how project and system have long been at work in our theological and philosophical tradition. Against this background, Kahn explains the development of the modern legal imagination in the nineteenth century as a movement from project to system. Americans began the century imagining the constitutional order as their common project: a deliberate construction of We the People. They ended the century imagining that order is continuous with the common law: an immanent development of the principles of civilization. This imaginative shift affected ideas of legal text, sovereignty, citizenship, interpretation, history, and science.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface: Project, System, and the Legal Imagination -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: On Method, Or What Philosophy Has to Offer -- , Introduction -- , 1. Origins of Order -- , 2. An Age of Suspicion -- , Introduction -- , 3. An American Legal Project -- , 4. Elements of the Legal Project -- , Introduction -- , 5. System and the Theory of the Common Law: From Blackstone to Holmes -- , 6. The Rise of an Unwritten Constitution -- , Conclusion: Has the Nineteenth Century Ended? -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-300-24341-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300249446