Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila.

[The Straight Story]

Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila.


Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by the centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

On the back of a treasured draft of the U.S. Constitution was a truncated version of the same document, starting with the familiar words: "We The People. . . ."

They had been scribbled upside down by one of the Constitution's framers, James Wilson, in the summer of 1787. The cursive continued, then abruptly stopped, as if pages were missing.

A mystery, Toler thought, until she examined other Wilson papers from the Historical Society's vault in Philadelphia and found what appeared to be the rest of the draft, titled "The Continuation of the Scheme."

The document - one of 21 million in the Historical Society's collection - was known to scholars, but probably should have been placed with the other drafts, said constitutional scholar John P. Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20100202_Early_draft_of_the_Constitution_found_in_Phila_.html

[liberal N proud]

1. That couldn't be our constitution

It says "We The People. . . ."


Now if it had said "We The Corporations. . . ." maybe. I smell something fishy here.







Just in case:
:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[FarCenter]

2. They actually meant to say "We, the property-owning white folks..."

[thereismore]

3. With an asterisk, *property includes folk of negro race for the purpose of this scheme. nt

Just in case, :sarcasm: