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Lavishly illustrated in full color
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From Lynne Cheney, for children and their families: the dramatic illustrated story of how our Constitution came to be
We the People
by Lynne Cheney
When 1787 began, our young country was in turmoil. The
central government was unable to pay off debts, there was
armed insurrection in Massachusetts, and foreign
governments were taking advantage of our weakness. The
question of the hour, James Madison wrote, was "whether the
American experiment was to be a blessing to the world or to
blast forever the hopes which the republican cause had
inspired." So in May of that year, delegates from across
America -- including George Washington, James Madison, and
Benjamin Franklin -- gathered in Philadelphia. There they
debated and struggled until finally they created a new
framework for governing: the Constitution of the United
States. Now, in We the People: The Story of Our
Constitution, bestselling author Lynne Cheney (wife of the
Vice President) and master illustrator Greg Harlin team up
to recreate this momentous time in American history -- a
time when, in Mrs. Cheney's words, "a document was written
that created our nation and offered a vision of ordered
liberty to all the world."
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"The story of our founding document is an important
one for our children to know," writes Mrs. Cheney. "It is a
tale of persistence, as delegates kept on despite obstacles
that at times made their task seem impossible. It is a tale
of creativity, with the delegates providing a framework for
a government entirely new. It is also a story that makes
clear there was nothing inevitable about the Constitution
that emerged from the Philadelphia convention. History
might have gone otherwise but for the framers' genius." In
We the People, that story comes alive with all the drama
and pageantry our nation’s founding document deserves.
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