Lepore grasp of the Constitution

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Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, is not a history of the Constitution but of constitutional amendments — that is, of efforts to change the Constitution. And the reason that the subject interests her is that she doesn’t think much of the Constitution to begin with.

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