Over 230 years ago on Dec. 15, 1791, Virginia ratified the Bill of Rights, being the last state required to do so before ...

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.

Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those of elites, argues bestselling historian Lepore (These Truths) in this ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ...

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 ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, ...

Gov. Tim Walz has suggested a constitutional amendment to ban assault weapons in Minnesota. Odds of it passing in the Legislature, getting to the voters, passing and then withstanding Second Amendment ...

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." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...