Originalism is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and ...

Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and ...

Let's remember our Constitution's clarion calls — and let's embrace them instead of hate, violence and political retribution.

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.

The U.S. Constitution is one of our nation’s most important documents, laying the foundation for the greatest democratic experiment in history — putting power in the hands of the American people.

Written over two centuries ago by people long since departed, the Constitution is often admired for its durability. It has stood the test of time and still provides the framework for our government ...

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 ...

Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, ...

Historian and best-selling author Jill Lepore argues that the difficulty and rarity of amendment has led to a stifling of popular will, among other problems ...

To mark Constitution Day, the National Archives for the first time in history displayed all the pages of the Constitution for public viewing on Wednesday.