‘We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution’ by Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water,” said in the Los Angeles Times . The lauded historian, prominent legal scholar, and New Yorker journalist has constructed a lively chronicle of the many attempts since 1791 to amend the U.S. Constitution, underscoring as she does so that America’s founding document was intended to welcome, not stifle, well-considered revisions and refinements. The pages of the original Constitution sit under glass in Washington, D.C. But Lepore argues that the document should not be seen as akin to Moses’ stone tablets, calling it “an explosion of ideas”—ideas that should both endure and evolve. Eventually, she attacks

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