Challenging the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution as a Sacred Text

June 14, 2020 1 min read

Challenging the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution as a Sacred Text

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The United States tends to glorify its Founders and try to maintain a strange temporal connection to them.

By John McNamara

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Originally published by the European Journal of American Studies 12:2 (Summer 2017) under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic license.

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