Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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How long is a constitution supposed to last?

Osita Nwanevu notes that constitutions in the developed world average about thirty years, and that Sweden calmly rewrote its own in peacetime. Helena Rosenblatt, who is Swedish, doubts a country of ten million can be meaningfully compared to the United States.

250 years in, should America ever start over?