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| | Insights Vol. 3, No. 2: Article: A Legal Faith for the New Republic, page 3 |
 | | Emerging at the time of the American Revolutionary War, legalism and its defining commitment to a rule of law became even more powerful in the early nineteenth century, as social change accelerated and Americans sought images and attitudes to calm their anxiety. |
 | | Albert Venn Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (New York: Macmillan, 1908), 179-92. |
 | | Grant Gilmore has observed that, since the late eighteenth century, American law was supposed to make some overall sense; it was not supposed to grow and be applied in a disorganized, unplanned, eccentric way, as was tolerably the case in England. |
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