My review of Fergus Bordewich’s illuminating tome, The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, appears in the September 26, 2016 copy of the Weekly Standard.
The Constitution they enacted is a remarkable document, but parchment was not enough to meld together the disparate states and peoples. A government had to be stood up to make good on the Constitution’s promises to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” This challenge fell to the first Congress, convened between 1789 and 1791….(Read more at the Weekly Standard)
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