228 Years Ago Today Helped Shape America

On May 14, 1787, delegates convened a Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presided over the convention.

What would the Father of our Country think today?

James D. Best, the author of Tempest at Dawn - a novel about the 1787 Constitutional Convention, believes: "Washington's major disappointment would be the cavalier disregard for Constitutional constraints. He wrote that, 'If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation.'

"George Washington fought for Independence, helped frame our Constitution, and gave us a sterling example of Constitutional governance. He committed his life and fortune to his country, and he would be disappointed by our lack of knowledge about our founding history."

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