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How A ‘Brittle’ Constitution Broke U.S. Politics with Historian Jill Lepore

How A ‘Brittle’ Constitution Broke U.S. Politics with Historian Jill Lepore

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In her latest book, We the People, the historian, New Yorker staff
writer, and Harvard University professor Jill Lepore turns her
attention to the history of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically,
she focuses on all the ways our government’s foundational text has
changed throughout its nearly 250 year history. Lepore calls
Article V, which lays out the Constitution’s amendment mechanism,
by far its most “radical innovation.” But she says the Constitution
has become unamendable in the modern era — it hasn’t been
meaningfully updated in more than a half-century, corroding our
politics and government. Kara and Jill break down why the
Framers included a way to make changes to the Constitution, how
we’re still grappling with Article V’s bad compromises, and why the
now dominant judicial philosophy of originalism contradicts the
Framers’ intent. Lepore also digs into whether the Constitution can
withstand PresidentTrump’s constant attacks. Questions? Comments?
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