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=====Constitution of the United States—A History=====
=====Constitution of the United States—A History=====
[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/more-perfect-union by NATIONAL ARCHIVES]
[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/more-perfect-union by NATIONAL ARCHIVES]
  May 25, 1787, freshly spread dirt covered the cobblestone street in front of the Pennsylvania State House, protecting the men inside from the sound of passing carriages and carts. Guards stood at the entrances to ensure that the curious were kept at a distance. Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, the "financier" of the Revolution, opened the proceedings with a nomination--Gen. George Washington for the presidency of the Constitutional Convention. The vote was unanimous. With characteristic ceremonial modesty, the general expressed his embarrassment at his lack of qualifications to preside over such an august body and apologized for any errors into which he might fall in the course of its deliberations.
  May 25, 1787, freshly spread dirt covered the cobblestone street in front of the Pennsylvania State House, protecting the men inside from the sound of passing carriages and carts. Guards stood at the entrances to ensure that the curious were kept at a distance. Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, the "financier" of the Revolution, opened the proceedings with a nomination--Gen. George Washington for the presidency of the Constitutional Convention.  
 
=====We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution=====
[https://jlepore.scholars.harvard.edu/publications/we-people-history-us-constitution by Jill Lepore]
"In this remarkably engaging and deeply researched work, one of America’s most important living historians illuminates the most vital quality of our Constitution: its capacity for renewal."
― Pete Buttigieg, former secretary of transportation
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