Ideas By Kermit Roosevelt III November 7, 2024 1:12 PM EST Roosevelt is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and the author of The Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story . A merica has the world’s longest-lasting written constitution. It’s been through a lot—one Civil War, two World Wars, a Great Depression, and all the shocks of the early 21 st century. It’s been amended 27 times, though not since 1992. The document, you might