{"id":3455,"date":"2016-09-16T21:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2016-09-16T21:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T01:05:32","slug":"inventing-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/inventing-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventing America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3457\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/inventing-america\/fergus-bordewich-the-first-congress-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress.png\" data-orig-size=\"534,781\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fergus-bordewich-the-first-congress\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress-205x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3457\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress.png\" alt=\"fergus-bordewich-the-first-congress\" width=\"534\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress.png 534w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fergus-Bordewich-The-First-Congress-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a>My review of Fergus Bordewich&#8217;s illuminating tome, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2d1k6Kg\">The First Congress:\u00a0How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government<\/a><\/em>, appears in the September 26, 2016 copy of the <em>Weekly Standard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s promises to &#8220;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.&#8221; This challenge fell to the first Congress, convened between 1789 and 1791&#8230;.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/inventing-america\/article\/2004357\">Read more at the Weekly Standard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Fergus Bordewich&#8217;s illuminating tome, The First Congress:\u00a0How 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. 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