A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.


The Story of America: Essays on Origins (ed. Princeton University Press, 2012) - ISBN: 9780691153995


A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the...

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the...

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the...

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the...