The checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated, yet the Constitution remains, in the words of one expert, "absolutely eternal ...

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.

These proposals sought to change the United States' name, abolish the presidency and the vice presidency, and set a limit on ...

A History of the U.S. Constitution’ by Jill Lepore. J ill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life ...

Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with Jill Lepore, author of ...

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." ...

Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, has been awarded the American Historical Association’s (AHA) ...

The National Archives in Washington, D.C. will be showcasing the four pages of the historic document, plus a rarely shown ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Folks got a chance to have their picture taken with something most people will never see in person, and yet, it governs their everyday life. One of 14 known copies of the official ...