PHILADELPHIA (WHSV) - Nearly 240 years ago on Sept. 17, 1787, 39 delegates gathered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to sign the new U.S. Constitution. The United States’ current ...

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 ...

In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's ...

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 ...

Historian and author Jill Lepore explores the U.S. Constitution in "We the People." Historian and author Jill Lepore explores the U.S. Constitution in her new book, "We the People: A History of the ...

Harvard’s Jill Lepore is a triple threat: lauded historian, prominent legal scholar and New Yorker journalist. She approaches the American experiment from myriad angles, drawing on protagonists such ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Constitutional scholar and Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar is on a professional crusade to encourage Americans to understand the U.S. Constitution. He is writing a three-volume narrative ...

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 ...