The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution

The author serves up quotes from documents written around the time of the ratification of the constitution. His argument is that the founding fathers wanted a government that gave much more power to individual states. I think I often disagreed with the author. His argument often was phrased as "despite how the founders wrote it, the majority of the founding fahers really meant something else." While he does provide quotes, I find it hard to believe that the opponents of the Constitution could be soothed by the proponents saying, "no that's not what we meant, we meant the opposite." In general it was fascianating to here the message they wrote back then. It was also fascinating the founding fathers were so well educated and able to create an impressive government without the use of Wikipedia. I propose the news media should quote the constitution more often.

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