The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the ...

Americans celebrated Constitution Day on Wednesday, marking the ratification of the founding document for the nation’s government. To mark the occasion and ahead of the U.S. semiquincentennial, the ...

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 ...

Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, ...

The Constitution remains on display in the National Archives today, reverently viewed by visitors, "much as Mao Zedong sleeps in his tomb in Tiananmen Square," Garrett Epps writes. Credit: Wikimedia ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis. Even the Constitution’s drafters and ratifiers readily conceded their handiwork ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Georgia Historical Society is commemorating Constitution Day this Wednesday with a public showing of a rare draft copy of the United States Constitution, containing ...