We the People: Liveright

It is impossible to imagine a more instructive text on a more timely subject by a more accomplished historian
An arresting chronicle of Americans striving - if sometimes failing - to remake their republic
We the People contains compelling accounts of the constitutional convention . . . As ever, Lepore writes with literary flair, offering striking character studies, often of Americans who fought for change but are now largely forgotten
In her characteristically lively history of the US Constitution, Lepore argues that the document's capacity for amendment was not only central to the founders' political thinking but essential to its ratification . . . Lepore's passionate denunciation of this theory of constitutional interpretation paints it as one of the "stranger paradoxes" of American constitutional history
Startling and innovative . . . A vivid portrait of mostly unfamiliar voices of constitutional demurral from this archive and beyond . . . Left hanging in the air at the end of this rewarding book is a dark question: At what cost have we abandoned amendment?
We the People is most illuminating when it unearths long-ignored but prescient provisions that sprang from groups excluded from the body politic . . . a compelling case for the need to institute constitutional reforms and steer away from a system heavily reliant on the actions of a hyper-politicized Supreme Court
Lepore's sweeping new history of efforts to amend the constitution is so relevant . . . thoughtful and engaging
A gifted storyteller
Traces the history of constitutional amendment and the significance of the constitutional tradition to the American state