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 ...

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." ...

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

During our commemoration of Constitution Week, Sept. 17-23, it often is appropriate to remember that the United States Constitution was not our first form of government following the Revolutionary War ...

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 ...

The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king, the framers did ...

August 14, 2025 • The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to convince people something essential was missing from the Constitution: clear ...

In my high school civics class, each student was given a pocket-sized United States Constitution. I carried my copy with me everywhere, thumbing through the pages and searching for answers to homework ...

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