We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution and the grassroots activists who

and the grassroots activists who

The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history

John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America

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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution and the grassroots activists whoThe U. S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding the anniversary, too, of the first