Historian Jill Lepore explores the Constitution and its interpretations in 'We the People' Originalism is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be ...

Constitution Day is September 17. In his Constitution Day Conversation with Fulcrum Contributor Rick LaRue, leading constitutional scholar and advisor Richard Albert places the document in a ...

History professor Jonathan Gienapp criticized constitutional originalism for its insufficient understanding of the period in which the Constitution was written at his Tuesday talk, titled “History and ...

Jill Lepore knows her stuff. She’s a staff writer at The New Yorker, a professor at Harvard, and the author of a new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, that examines the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's new term is here, offering new opportunities for the justices to remake our constitutional rights in the name of history. In its last two terms alone, the court did just that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 165 international constitutions include gender equality, and ours should, too. In January 2020, Virginia ratified the ...

Not so long ago, originalism seemed safely contained. Ascendant during the Reagan era, originalists argued that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning, but when ...