We the people : (Record no. 367)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1631496085
Qualifying information (hardback) :
Terms of availability $39.99
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781631496080
Qualifying information (hardback) :
Terms of availability $39.99
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1490364622
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency YDX
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number KF4541
Item number .L37 2025
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 342.7302/9
Edition number 23/eng/20250911
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 973
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lepore, Jill,
Dates associated with a name 1966-
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title We the people :
Remainder of title a history of the U.S. Constitution /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jill Lepore.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title History of the United States Constitution
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title History of the U.S. Constitution
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Liveright Publishing Corporation,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2025]
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice � 2025
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 702 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 25 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
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337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term unmediated
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338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term volume
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-664) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding--the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions-- We the People offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. "One of the Constitution's founding purposes was to prevent change," Lepore writes. "Another was to allow for change without violence." Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789, and thousands more have been proposed outside its doors, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. More troubling, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without recourse to amendment, she argues, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential or judicial fiat. Challenging both the Supreme Court's monopoly on constitutional interpretation and the flawed theory of "originalism," Lepore contends in this "gripping and unfamiliar story of our own past" that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism. The framers never intended for the Constitution to be preserved, like a butterfly, under glass, Lepore argues, but expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, hoping to mend America by amending its Constitution through an orderly deliberative and democratic process. Lepore's remarkable history seeks, too, to rekindle a sense of constitutional possibility. Congressman Jamie Raskin writes that Lepore "has thrown us a lifeline, a way of seeing the Constitution neither as an authoritarian straitjacket nor a foolproof magic amulet but as the arena of fierce, logical, passionate, and often deadly struggle for a more perfect union." At a time when the Constitution's vulnerability is all too evident, and the risk of political violence all too real, We the People, with its shimmering prose and pioneering research, hints at the prospects for a better constitutional future, an amended America." -- Provided by the publisher.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. From the best-selling author of "These Truths" comes "We the People," a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.
610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Title of a work Constitution.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Constitutions
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Constitutional history
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Constitutional amendments
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Constitutional amendments
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision Ratification.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Democracy
Geographic subdivision United States.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
General subdivision Politics and government.
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655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Informational works.
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942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Book - training
949 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
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2 GRANT
o Purchased with funds from People People People grant.
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Main Library Main Library 11/20/2025   342.7302/9 LEP 8675342912 11/20/2025 11/20/2025 Book - training