Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005. gada 15. nov. - 204 lappuses The United States Constitution, battleground of a politically bifurcated nation, and sponsor of that nation's now threatened cultural unity, is a quintessentially political document. Americans' representatives swear loyalty to it, and her soldiers die for it. Yet no one has ever seriously considered the formative influence this document, so central a force for all Americans, has had on American cultural life. Now, in this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer has for the first time demonstrated the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks. |
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1.–3. rezultāts no 54.
... Union . The dominant literary task demanded in the first decades of national life was the defense of the new republican government . It must be re- membered that during the earlier Federalist period , most especially be- fore ...
... Union demanded a strict fealty to the Constitution , of this he was equally convinced . Only by means of the Constitution would the Union survive , and only the survival of the Union could guarantee a legal system of popular self ...
... union as well as greatness " ( p . 70 ) . Sovereignties tending to true union ? One is tempted to ask whether any union could survive such an abundance of " sovereign states . " Is this not akin to the very condition of lawlessness ...
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Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
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