For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

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

The National Archives in Washington, D.C. will be showcasing the four pages of the historic document, plus a rarely shown ...

We the People: A History of the US Constitution. By Jill Lepore. Liveright; 720 pages; $39.99. John Murray; £30 Donald Trump’s administration has imprisoned immigrants for their political opinions and ...

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.

On Nov. 8, 1787, a pamphleteer who wrote under the pseudonym Cato published one of the most prescient warnings in American history. Cato looked at the proposed Constitution and declared that it might ...

In 1787, as delegates emerged from drafting our Constitution, a citizen famously asked Benjamin Franklin what sort of government have you given us? His reply—“A republic, if you can keep it”—was a ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. For a majority of Americans, there are few holidays that come and go unnoticed — from ...