The Great Convention as Comic Action

In our political system the fundamental law, the Constitution of the United States, is sovereign. Our public servants, both elected and appointed, swear loyalty to it, as if to a prince, and undertake "to preserve, protect and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic"--a large order, to be executed only with care and caution. As a prince may be distracted from his rightful function as father to his people by the blandishments of evil counselors, so may the fundamental law be draw...