TIME The Constitution: Does It Still Matter?

by Richard Stengel

Americans have debated the Constitution since the day it was signed, but seldom have so many disagreed so fiercely about so much. People on the right and left constantly ask what the framers would say about some event happening today. In an unabridged version of TIME’s cover story, managing editor Richard Stengel explores the debate over what the constitutions says about four current Libya, Obamacare, the debt ceiling and immigration. exclusive interviews with America’s top legal scholars.

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 23, 2011

About the author

Richard Stengel is the former editor of TIME. He collaborated with Nelson Mandela on his bestselling 1993 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and later served as coproducer of the 1996 Oscar-nominated documentary Mandela. He is also the author of January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town. Stengel is married to Mary Pfaff and they have two sons.