The Year That Changed Everything
The Atlantic Criticizing the Founders is in vogue these days, but what they did was extraordinary. 6:30 AM ET The Atlantic In 1788, We the People of the United States ordained a Constitution to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” It was the year that changed everything. Yet for the past century, posterity has profoundly misunderstood what happened then—who did what, why they did it, and how, and also what they failed to do that needed doing. Much of the confusion began in 1913, when the American historian Charles Beard published his muckraking blockbuster, ...
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