Intended to be Amended
The Constitution wasn't our first founding document, and has been amended 27 times. It can be changed again.
Time was running short. The nation hadn’t even found its footing yet and it was already falling apart. The grand plan hadn’t materialized as they had hoped. It was time to act.
It would take weeks for the selected few to arrive. Madison saw this both as time not to be wasted and as an opportunity. He spent those weeks writing up the Virginia plan for the…
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