We the People
The Constitution treated not as settled scripture but as a two-century argument Americans are still having.
Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker writer, tells the story of the United States Constitution as a document people have argued over, amended, ignored and reinterpreted for more than two centuries. It is constitutional history written as narrative rather than doctrine, concerned less with what the text says than with what Americans have repeatedly decided it means.
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