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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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.

The Constitution is not just notes on paper. It is a living organism that has developed over time in order to serve its purpose. To help preserve our freedoms and to protect us from tyranny.

It has become what we need it to be in order to survive in this country.

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