An Unchangeable Constitution? ^65.3%

Jacobin - By Jill Lepore - 7/2/2026, 9:17 AM

Post Hoc (False Cause) 53.7% - Negativity Bias 45.2% - Hasty Generalization 33%

The US Constitution is “not a living document,” Justice Antonin Scalia once said. “It’s dead, dead, dead.” In her Pulitzer Prize–winning book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, Harvard historian Jill Lepore shows that the document’s demise came slowly. Before originalists like Scalia put the final nail in the coffin,... more