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

Jill Lepore’s “We the People” examines amendments as engines of change. And “History Matters” offers insights from the late David McCullough.

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 ...

It’s Constitution Day in America, and we implore all Americans to understand that the United States Constitution must remain the foundational bedrock of our democracy. On Sept. 17, 1787, the Founders ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." ...

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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the American framers had created, he wryly replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” This Constitution Day, on the brink of celebrating the ...

Sept. 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, meant to celebrate the signing of the United States' founding document and all those who have become citizens since. Here's a quick history lesson and ...

Philanthropists worry about false positives – grants that don’t pan out in the way they had hoped and planned, or, even worse, that do more harm than good. In my time as a funder, I certainly extended ...