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The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
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The 233year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic
Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fiftyfive men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twentyseven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have ...