This holiday season, we're grateful for the institutions that have preserved our liberty — even when they frustrate us.

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 ...

I recently made a pilgrimage to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see the United States Constitution — the one that George Washington and 38 other Founders signed with a goose quill 238 ...

During our commemoration of Constitution Week, Sept. 17-23, it often is appropriate to remember that the United States Constitution was not our first form of government following the Revolutionary War ...

The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government in 1787 that distributed power among three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial. Having just overthrown a king, the framers did ...

What if most members of Congress from both political parties believe in perpetual war and perpetual debt? What if the political class believes that war is the health of the state? What if the ...

In my high school civics class, each student was given a pocket-sized United States Constitution. I carried my copy with me everywhere, thumbing through the pages and searching for answers to homework ...

August 14, 2025 • The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to convince people something essential was missing from the Constitution: clear ...

Ambedkar was, therefore, anchoring the Indian Republic in a timeless, universal ethic. He was saying that for India to ...

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 ...

India’s Constitution has returned to the centre of national debate, invoked on campaign stages, challenged in political ...