To bring more fact and less opinion to discussion of the US Constitution's role and meaning outside of partisan politics.
To understand better the document and the events that unfold from its existance. A focus on scientific philosophy, literature, semantics, even satire and song...but leave the red and blue out of it...black and white will do.

HELPFUL HINTS..........................................................................

"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat."

James Madison, Federalist No. 14, November 30, 1787

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."

James Madison, Federalist No. 58, 1788

"But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain."

James Madison, Federalist No. 42, January 22, 1788

"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."

Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774

"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years."

Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789

"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, July 17, 1775

"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it."

John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave."

John Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772

" 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world. "

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

George Washington, Circular to the States, May 9, 1753

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796