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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (29049)	2/18/2012 10:02:28 AM
From: Sam	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 223204

GZ, it is important to not just read the Constitution itself, it is important to read what the people who wrote the document were thinking when they were writing it. Well, actually, when they were debating it. Only a few people did the actual writing, in August, led by Gouvernour Morris (see en.wikipedia.org ). Which is why Madison's Notes is so important. Even that isn't really sufficient, because there is a lot of background material that went into the conception and writing. IMHO, Douglas Adair is an excellent starting point, as he really gets into the philosophic background going back to Aristotle and the idea of mixed government, which many people simply ignore because Aristotle's Politics isn't studied the way it should be. See books.google.com for one of his books that consists of (relatively) short essays. In any case, I'm not going to try to give a syllabus here. But a good deal of what is said about both the Convention and the Constitution simply isn't so, or is heavily skewed because it isn't informed by that background.