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

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.

CNN — (CNN) — The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made. President Joe Biden, in his farewell address, called for ...

In his 1970 book "Future Shock," Alvin Toffler foresaw disorientation, stress and helplessness as the product of rapid ...

Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, is not a history of the Constitution but of constitutional ...

The U.S. Constitution is a big deal. It's the supreme law of the land, shaping how the government works and protecting your rights. But how much do you really know about it? Whether you slept through ...

In 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe, I attended a North Atlantic Assembly conference in Brussels, Belgium, on the future of the ...

Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, ...