The Amendments Project has been featured in both the Harvard Gazette and the Harvard Law Bulletin in articles about Dr. Jill Lepore’s new book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.

Describing the Amendments Project “a first-of-its-kind accomplishment,” Rebecca Beyer (Harvard Law Bulletin) highlights how the database and the process of assembling it “proved to be a powerful inspiration” for Lepore’s new book. You can also see the impact of the database in Lepore’s article “How Originalism Killed the Constitution” from the October 2025 issue of the Atlantic. Tracking the the waxing and waning of amendment activity leads Lepore to describe Article V as a “sleeping giant” often awoken and agitated by war. She also highlights some key figures, including:

• – approximately 12,000 amendements formally introduced in Congress, of which only 27 have been ratified
• – more than 2,100 constitutional amendments proposed by members of Congress between 1980 and 2020
• – and over 10,000 petitions and countless letters, postcards, and phone and email messages to Congress

In light of this massive contrast of proposed and ratified amendments, Leopre argues that the Constitution’s amendment provision has done a poor job of achieving the change and improvement imagined by the document’s framers. You can find out more about these calls for change in the The Amendments Project and get the full story in Lepore’s New Book.