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Constitution? Yes Please!

Creative writing exercise on the viewpoint of an individual during the time of the creation of the American Constitution: for the Constitution Constitution? Yes Please!      Through my various contacts I have procured a copy of what was called to be a revision of the Articles of Confederation, but being the intellectual giants that are the delegates of the Constitutional Convention they took it upon themselves to toss out the nonfunctioning Articles of Confederation and take up the work of writing a new document that is now to the states to be ratified. Though ominous as it might seem that these mere men would decide without the people’s consent to discard the Articles and draft a new constitution, the document they have constructed is truly ingenious. I say this not by what my contacts have told me, but by proof of my own eyes for I have been supplied a draft of this proposed constitution which I have read thoroughly and completely several times. This proposed constitution whil