The Birth of the U.S. Constitution and Our Reflections

Author: Yi Zhongtian
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The Constitution of the United States, drafted at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, is the world's first written constitution, containing a brilliant design. It was this design that created a system that was both democratic and republican, fully embodying the spirit of constitutionalism and the rule of law, and enabled this young nation to rise from the wilderness and quickly become a superpower, perhaps one you don't like but cannot afford to ignore. Such a brilliant design, created by a group of backwoods settlers over 200 years ago, is truly astonishing. Therefore, I believe that many friends who are concerned about constitutionalism must be eager to know exactly how such a constitution came into being. The author of this book records the entire process of the Constitutional Convention in a lively and vivid style, making it as engaging as a detective novel or a TV drama series. On September 17, 1787, after the final minor revisions, the delegates attending the Philadelphia Convention decided to sign the draft of the Constitution of the United States of America (i.e., the Constitution) they had completed two days earlier, testifying to it and submitting it to the Confederation Congress and the state conventions for approval. As the last few delegates signed, the eighty-one-year-old Pennsylvania delegate, the respected Dr. Benjamin Franklin, gazed deeply beyond the chair of the convention president with his profound eyes, fixed on an artwork on the opposite wall. It was a painting. On that painting, a red sun was rising in full glory. This book explains the birth of the U.S. Constitution and reflections on it through eight parts: "Cause and Effect," "Clouds of Suspicion," "Clash of Wills," "A Ray of Hope," and more.