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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding ...

Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WHSV) - Nearly 240 years ago on Sept. 17, 1787, 39 delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to sign the new U.S. Constitution. The United States’ current ...

In the early 1970s, buoyed by bipartisan support, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. A rush of state ratifications ...

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis. Even the Constitution’s drafters and ratifiers readily conceded their handiwork ...

Harvard’s Jill Lepore is a triple threat: lauded historian, prominent legal scholar and New Yorker journalist. She approaches the American experiment from myriad angles, drawing on protagonists such ...

The entire U.S. Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the National Archives’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation. The Constitution and the original Bill of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and New Yorker ...