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Dec. 1, 2013
American Epic
Law professor Garrett Epps's entertaining and literate exposition on the Constitution.
The business of interpreting the U.S. Constitution antedates the Constitution itself. The Federalist, the greatest didactic work in American history, was an eloquent and lengthy argument for what the Constitution meant, what it was going to do, and why Americans should ratify it. If you don't want to include The Federalist, you can search at least as far back as 1820, when Virginia's U.S. senator John Taylor published Constructions Construed, and Const...
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