A Country with No Name : Tales from the Constitution

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Sebastian De Grazia reads the Constitution not as a legal code but as a literary text — a narrative about a people attempting to become a nation. In this collection of essays, De Grazia treats the founding documents as a story, tracing the myths and contradictions that have shaped American identity. He moves beyond dry legal analysis to explore how the Constitution functions as a cultural mythos.\n\nEach essay is a meditation on a specific element of the American story: the Declaration, the Federalist Papers, the Bill of Rights. DeGrazia argues that the Constitution is less a set of rules and more a set of possibilities that Americans have contested and reinterpreted for centuries. This is not a law school textbook; it is a work of literary criticism that reveals the Constitution as a text that is still being written.

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