America’s Constitution: Its Surprising Evolution from 1788 to the 21st Century

<p>In an earlier episode, Editor-at-Large Clay Jenkinson described <a class="Link" href= "https://www.governing.com/context/how-americas-three-constitutions-define-the-nation" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cms-ai="0">America’s three constitutions</a>: T<a class="Link" href= "https://www.governing.com/context/americas-constitution-in-2021-what-would-thomas-jefferson-do" data-cms-ai="0">he capital-c Constitution drafted in 1787</a>; and the small-c constitution of norms and traditions not specified in the written Constitution and the ways the American people actually constitute themselves. In this third in a series, Jenkinson suggests that even — or especially — in our norm-busting times, a president’s bully pulpit has grown bigger, stuffed as it is with extra constitutional executive actions.</p> <p> </p>