The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates – the course of events – over more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyone’s.
-Jill Lepore
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