American epic : reading the US Constitution

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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 Doct...

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Main Author: Epps, Garrett (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution
Constitutional law > United States
Constitutions > United States
LAW / Constitutional.
Table of Contents:
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  • Preface
  • 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 Chidren
  • Article V: Alter or Abolish
  • Article VI: The Supreme Law of the Land
  • Article VII: Bloodless and Successful
  • Last Things.

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