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 ...

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 ...

On the evening of Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her newly published book, “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” A Harvard professor of History and Law ...

A reminder from Jill Lepore to her country: The Constitution was built to be amended. In “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American ...

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 ...

Jill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water,” said Hamilton Cain in the Los Angeles Times. The lauded historian, prominent legal ...

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In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: What founding document was ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - In the nation’s capital, visitors are now getting a rare look at the Constitution before it was finalized. For the first time, the National Archives is displaying every page of ...

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 ...