With Donald Trump and his allies constantly testing the limits of, or outright defying, constitutional rights in the United States, is one of our most important founding documents — the Constitution itself — equipped to protect U.S. democracy?
The Constitution is in “fairly good shape,” argues Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The real problem is a disengaged American civil society, and a belief that the country’s political institutions are set in stone. Lepore joins Zeteo’s John Harwood for a live conversation to discuss how Americans can reclaim their power to reshape the Constitution and defend their democratic freedoms.
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Watch the full video above to hear Lepore and Harwood discuss:
The “philosophy of amendment”: everything in the Constitution is subject to editing and improving, to respond to a changing world
The midterm elections and the “possibility of a shakeup” when people go out, talk to each other, and vote
What it could take for “the constitutional door” to be “shoved open by the masses” for a new amendment
...and more!
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