Me the People

The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says.   Until now.     Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it.   But first, some historical context: In the eighteenth century, a lawyer named James Madison gathered his friends in Philadelphia and, over four lo