Is our Constitution "Wholly Inadequate" Today?

As a lifelong student of American government and history, one question has always intrigued me about the events which led to the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

How unlikely was this assembly of leaders and populace in one place that bred a nation which, in its early years, was unlike any other that preceded it?

It’s fashionable today to revisit the founders and other great men and women of American history, measure them against 21st...