American lawyers : public servants and the development of a nation /
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Chicago :
American Bar Association,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- Founding lawyers : enthroning law as king
- Founding lawyers as partisans : making the judiciary
- Lawyers unifying a nation
- Lawyers for equal rights for all citizens
- Lawyers and the issue of slavery
- Lawyers at war with one another
- Lawyers reconstructing the South
- Lawyers and the "search for order"
- Lawyers competing for status : law as science?
- Lawyers organizing their profession
- Lawyers for social progress
- Exporting progress : lawyers as missionaries
- Progress on a national scale
- Progress interrupted
- Institutional reforms
- Lawyers in the New Deal
- Patriotic lawyers
- Lawyers seeking world peace
- The Cold War : lawyers and loyalties
- Civil rights lawyers
- Lawyers for civil liberties and "The Great Society"
- Private lawyers enforcing public law
- Lawyers as human capitalists
- Lawyers deterring public disorder
- Lawyers in disorder : Watergate
- New law governing lawyers and legal institutions