"Lepore assesses Article V, providing for amending the Constitution, in her new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. She will be discussing the book, in one of the highlight events of this year's Portland Book Festival, with OPB's Geoff Norcross at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, in the Newmark Theatre. Festival tickets provide admission but purchase of the book at $35 secures entry."
"The industrially productive Lepore - she's a history professor at Harvard and the author of a dozen books, from an extensive history of America to a biography of Wonder Woman, as well as a staff writer at The New Yorker who seems to be in the magazine almost every other week - points out that the Constitution writers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 expected their work to be amended. In fact, they rapidly accepted 10 amendments, now known as the Bill of Rights."
Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides the formal process for amending the Constitution. The framers expected the Constitution to be amendable and quickly accepted ten amendments now known as the Bill of Rights. The amendment process requires two-thirds approval in both houses of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of state legislatures. That high threshold has made successful amendments rare, producing only 17 additional amendments over more than two centuries despite thousands of proposed changes. Deep partisan divisions and entrenched political factions have further narrowed the practical prospects for achieving the broad consensus that Article V requires.
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