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A cynical view on the Constitutional Convention…
December 3, 2011 by TimHughes 
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Perhaps it would not be a surprise that a British report on the beginning of the American Constitutional Convention would have a cynical slant, but this report seems to stretch the point. This observation appeared in the London “Gentleman’s Magazine” issue of July, 1787.
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