Jill Lepore's essay, We the Parchment, discusses the issues pertaining to American people and the constitution. One of Lepore's main arguments is about how people don't read and understand the constitution properly. In a poll, 72 percent out of 1,000 people have never read the constitution.(page 76). Lepore's states that this is a big problem because how are we suppose to protect our constitutional rights if we don't know or understand them. She agrees that the constitution is hard to read. It is too hard for an ordinary person to understand. After all this, people still worship the document as if it were something sacred will insisted that we follow the laws listed. Lepore suggest citizens should see it as an evolving document as the country