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from99% Invisible
6 days ago
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Constitution Breakdown #8: Jill Lepore - 99% Invisible

Article V outlines the amendment process of the U.S. Constitution, which has become increasingly difficult to navigate.
fromHarvard Gazette
6 months ago
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'We the People' had other plans - Harvard Gazette

The U.S. Constitution was designed to be amended; Article V established balanced procedures for changes, but the amendment process is currently ineffective.
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fromemptywheel
2 months ago

This Is Not A Constitutional Moment - emptywheel

This script is based on a theory proposed by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Ackerman's idea is laid out in his 1991 book We The People: Foundations, and is discussed in the second of his Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures of 2006. It's gained prominence since the 2024 election and the wholesale assault on our governmental system by Trump.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
5 months ago

Portland Book Festival: Jill Lepore's 'We the People' is a different kind of constitutional history * Oregon ArtsWatch

Lepore assesses Article V, providing for amending the Constitution, in her new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. She will be discussing the book, in one of the highlight events of this year's Portland Book Festival, with OPB's Geoff Norcross at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, in the Newmark Theatre. Festival tickets provide admission but purchase of the book at $35 secures entry.
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