me the people

me the people hardcover kevin bleyer copyright 2012 317 pages ISBN 9781400069354 The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It?s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution?one that didn?t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. — � — Until now.� — � — Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it. — � — But first, some historical context: In the eighteenth century, a lawyer named James Madison gathered his friends in Philadelphia and, over four long months, wrote four short pages: the Constitution of the United States of America. Not bad. � In the nineteenth century, a president named Abraham Lincoln freed an entire people from the flaws in that Constitution by signing the Emancipation Proclamation.� Pretty impressive. � And in the twentieth century, a doctor at the Bethesda Naval Hospital delivered a baby?but not just any baby. Because in the twenty-first century, that baby would become a man, that man would become a patriot, and that patriot would rescue a country . . . by single-handedly rewriting that Constitution.