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UNINA9910463246703321 |
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Epps Garrett |
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American epic [[electronic resource] ] : reading the U.S. Constitution / / Garrett Epps |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-997476-4 |
0-19-997475-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Constitutional law - United States |
Constitutions - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface: How to Read a Constitution; Acknowledgments; Preamble: "Tell me, Muse, how it all began"; Article I: A Tale of Two Cities; Article II: Under the Bramble Bush; Article III: Solomon's Sword; Article IV: All God's Children; Article V: Alter or Abolish; Article VI: The Supreme Law of the Land; Article VII: Bloodless and Successful; Last Things; The Bill of Rights: National Decalogue; Quick Fixes: Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments; Democratic Vistas: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments |
A Burst of Reform: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth AmendmentsHangover Remedies: Twentieth through Twenty-Second Amendments; Dreams and Nightmares: The Twenty-Third through Twenty-Sixth Amendments; Madison's Return: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment; Appendix: The United States Constitution; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. ""It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand,"" he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow ""missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony,"" he writes. Americans may |
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venerate the Constitution, ""but all too seldom is it read."" In American Epic, Epps takes us through a complete reading of the Constitution--even the ""boring"" parts--to achieve an |
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