The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the ...

Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with Jill Lepore, author of ...

Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Constitution Day is September 17. In his Constitution Day Conversation with Fulcrum Contributor Rick LaRue, leading constitutional scholar and advisor Richard Albert places the document in a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch talked about the history of Constitution Day, while in conversation with one of his law clerks and ...

In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's ...

Nevada City Masons are planning for the 57th Annual Constitution Day Ceremonies, to be held on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 of September. Over several generations, our local parade has become one of the ...

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 ...