About the Book: On the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, historian Jill Lepore examines the U.S. Constitution’s remarkably difficult amendment process-only 27 of nearly twelve thousand proposed amendments have ever passed, and none meaningfully since 1971. Tracing generations of failed reform efforts, from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, We the People argues the Constitution was always meant to be gradually altered, not frozen in place, and considers what that means for America’s future amid rising political tension.