In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
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In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
Even the Constitution’s drafters and ratifiers readily conceded their handiwork called for a second or third look.Credit...Junius Brutus Stearns/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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