The Constitution in Plain English A component of The Republic Project

About the Lexicon

Published August 14, 2026

The Constitution in Plain English defines its own working vocabulary as it goes — terms of art from constitutional law and structural analysis, each explained in plain language and tied back to the clauses and units where they actually carry weight.

Entries are anchored in the project's own units, not mined from a dictionary: a term earns a Lexicon entry when it does real structural work in a published article, and its Usage line records where.