Our Constitution exists in no small measure because of the tireless efforts of our Founders to convince the American people that it was needed. Writing 85 articles and essays published throughout the newly independent country, they argued that the Constitution was the best way to...

Perfect it is not. Nothing is. Some framers sought to outlaw slavery before realizing it was politically impossible at the time. And if they had it to do again, they might have, for example, included term limits for Congress. They might have limited the power...