3. An American Legal Project

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Project, System, and the Legal Imagination ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction: On Method, Or What Philosophy Has to Offer 1
6. PART 1: Project and System Before the Constitution
7. Introduction 7
8. 1. Origins of Order 13
9. 2. An Age of Suspicion 43
10. PART 2: The Constitutionalism of Project
11. Introduction 77
12. 3. An American Legal Project 81
13. 4. Elements of the Legal Project 102
14. PART 3: System as the Order of Law
15. Introduction 147
16. 5. System and the Theory of the Common Law: From Blackstone to Holmes 157
17. 6. The Rise of an Unwritten Constitution 186
18. Conclusion: Has the Nineteenth Century Ended? 233
19. Notes 257
20. Index 313