Wonder how many of those folks have read anything about the US Constitution.....This book is fiction, but still an excellent foundation in understanding just what a Miracle our Government really is....
"We have a Democracy in a Republic, if we can keep it."
Ben Franklin
Miracle at Philadelphia
by
Catherine D. Bowen
Part I: Divisive Issues that Threatened the Union
Page Contents
Origins of the miracle
The United States - 1787
Constitutional Convention convenes
The Virginia Resolves
Constitutional Convention reconvenes
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The origins of the miracle:
"[These] 'details,' as finally agreed on, were to change the United States from a confederation to a workable, lasting Federal Republic." The word "miracle" was used by both George Washington and James Madison in their correspondence describing the results of the Constitutional Convention. Indeed, many delegates were so enmeshed in the heated debates over the details of the Constitution, that when they saw the finished document ready for signing, they expressed amazement at the excellence of the outcome of their work.
>>>>> "[These] 'details,' as finally agreed on, were to change the United States from a confederation to a workable, lasting Federal Republic. Two balanced powers: Congress and the Executive, state and central government, with the judiciary as umpire. It was to be a triumphant conclusion."<<<<< |
