Jill Lepore We the People (Hardback)

At what cost?. Author: Jill Lepore. Format: Hardback. Title: We the People. Subtitle: A History of the U.S. Constitution. Item Length: 165mm. Item Height: 244mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US.

We the People by Jill Lepore

From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.

We the People: A History of U.S. Constitution

“One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change,” Lepore writes. “Another was to allow for change without violence.”. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Congressman Jamie Raskin writes that Lepore “has thrown us a lifeline, a way of seeing the Constitution neither as an authoritarian straitjacket nor a foolproof magic amulet but as the arena of fierce, logical, passionate, and often deadly struggle for a more perfect union.”.