Notwithstanding its title, Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s new book, We The People: A History of the U.S. Constitution , is not a history of the Constitution but of constitutional amendments — that is, of efforts to change the Constitution. And the reason that the subject interests her is that she doesn’t think much of the Constitution to begin with.

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Lepore recites the usual litany of progressive reasons: it’s “outdated,” it encompassed slavery, no women helped write it, etc., often phrasing these in exaggerated terms and even outright falsehoods, such as when she repeatedly claims that women are “not persons under the

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