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Download full textSchwartzman, Roy – 1988
A mythic interpretive framework can explain how the use of an uncontested term--a word which "seems to invite a contest, but which apparently is not so regarded in its own context"--is legitimated and perpetuated. By examining John C. Calhoun's nullification rhetoric as a case study of political myth (specifically his "Disquisition…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Constitutional History, Discourse Analysis, Mythology
