Week Eight: The Constitution and “We, the People of The United States”
“We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words: ‘We, the people.’”
In week eight, Isaacson and Ellis tell us about Gouverneur Morris and “the greatest editing job of all time” through which our Constitution gained its majestic language and philosophical coherence clarifying that “we the people” are the source of authority and basis of government.
