Everyone knows the famous opening words of the Constitution’s preamble—“We the People of the United States…” What most people don’t know is that those words weren’t in the first draft. In its original form, the preamble read, “We the People of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island…” and so on. That’s how it stood until the closing days of the convention, when Gouverneur Morris, a Pennsylvania delegate, changed the words to the ones we know today. The point was to emphasize what, above all, the framers were creating: one nation, indivisible. In that spirit, I hope you approach this book
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