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Good morning, it’s Tuesday, May 25, 2021. On this date in 1787, 55 delegates met in Philadelphia to draft a Constitution to replace the unwieldy Articles of Confederation. Did those delegates, all of whom were white and male, do their best? That’s a fraught question.
It’s a matter of record that they were literally revolutionaries who had risked their lives, fortunes, and their family’s future for the idea of self-determination.
Even so, they also seem obtuse today: A new country devoted to independence that granted neither freedom nor equality to a majority of its citizens? That’s also a historic fact. Yet, these imperfect men produced a set of founding documents that created a framework for progress and for future generations to be liberated from the confines of late 18