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American epic : reading the U.S. Constitution /
"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 Doct...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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