The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from ...

Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and keep it a living framework for an evolving nation.

A History of the U.S. Constitution’ by Jill Lepore. J ill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life ...

Originalism is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and changed along with the times. Jill Lepore is a historian at Harvard ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." ...

It’s Constitution Day in America, and we implore all Americans to understand that the United States Constitution must remain the foundational bedrock of our democracy. On Sept. 17, 1787, the Founders ...

But since the country’s founding, constitutional meaning has never emerged solely from an elite cadre of justices. Nor has ...

Dr. Lepore is a professor of history and law at Harvard and the author of “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

Eighty-seven posters bearing the words of the U.S. Constitution could be seen standing tall at the first “We the People” ...

Constitution Day occurs annually on Sept. 17 to commemorate the Founding Fathers signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. It also celebrates those who have become naturalized U.S. citizens, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...