To understand how we got here, it’s helpful to return to another sweltering summer, a summer when everything actually was without precedent.
The 55 men who assembled in Philadelphia 237 years ago to hammer out an American Constitution differed on a great many things.
Among the rare points on which most agreed was that the American people could not be trusted to choose a president for themselves.
Slavery (barely discussed) and the mechanics of representation (much discussed) proved vexing.
But few questions so confounded the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention as those pertaining to the American presidency.
Locations:
Philadelphia