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Article: The miracle at Philadelphia. (The United States Constitution)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 27, 1987
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The Miracle at Philadelphia
In 1987, Americans fromBoston to San Diego are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. News offers a four-part special report on the Bicentennial.
You are there: If a modern newsweekly hadexisted when the Constitution was signed, its reporters would have analyzed the event--and debriefed the delegates to find out what went on behind closed doors. The result might have been a story like "The Miracle at Philadelphia.'
A living legacy: The framers designed theConstitution and the Bill of Rights, ratified two years later, to fit 18th-century society. Since then, the world has changed ...