On this day, September 17, 212 years ago, a group of men convened together to approve the re-writing of history.
No, they were not revisionist historians. They were making history by rejecting the ineffective Articles of Confederation, adopted as the United States gained its Independence from Britain, and establishing a more capable and effective form of republican government.
They established in the preamble both the reason why they were there, the purpose of the existence of the government of the United States of America and the reason why governments are established for mankind:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Establish Justice.
Insure domestic Tranquility.
Provide for the common defence.
Promote the general Welfare.
Secure the Blessings of Liberty.
God bless these souls (linked from Constitution Society):
Go. WASHINGTON — Presidt.
and deputy from Virginia
NICHOLAS GILMAN Massachusetts { NATHANIEL GORHAM
RUFUS KING Connecticut { WM. SAML. JOHNSON
ROGER SHERMAN New York . . . . ALEXANDER HAMILTON New Jersey { WIL: LIVINGSTON
DAVID BREARLEY.
WM. PATERSON.
JONA: DAYTON Pennsylvania { B FRANKLIN
THOMAS MIFFLIN
ROBT MORRIS
GEO. CLYMER
THOS. FITZ SIMONS
JARED INGERSOLL
JAMES WILSON
GOUV MORRIS Delaware { GEO: READ
GUNNING BEDFORD jun
JOHN DICKINSON
RICHARD BASSETT
JACO: BROOM Maryland { JAMES MCHENRY
DAN OF ST THOS. JENIFER
DANL CARROLL Virginia { JOHN BLAIR
JAMES MADISON North Carolina { WM. BLOUNT
RICHD. DOBBS SPAIGHT
HU WILLIAMSON South Carolina { J. RUTLEDGE
CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY
CHARLES PINCKNEY
PIERCE BUTLER Georgia { WILLIAM FEW
ABR BALDWIN
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