
Americans of late have taken to waving the Constitution in the air and proclaiming, "The founders were on MY side See, it's all right here " But these phantom constitutions bear little relation to the historical one. By entering the world of the Constitution's framers,...

Americans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R.B. Bernstein calls "essential reading," acclaimed historian Ray Raphael places the Constitution...