
How the Constitution Lost Its Life
Americans used to fight for constitutional change — and not just in the Supreme Court chamber. Jill Lepore talked to Jacobin about the decline of the amendment process and the rise of judicial power.
Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.

Americans used to fight for constitutional change — and not just in the Supreme Court chamber. Jill Lepore talked to Jacobin about the decline of the amendment process and the rise of judicial power.