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 writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called "These Truths." Now she's gone through the same history again for a book on the Constitution. She focuses on fights to amend or ...
THE PHRASE “checks and balances” does not appear anywhere in the United States constitution; and yet in a manual for Martians on how America governs itself it would be on page one. Those three words ...