Further, it’s a bias towards the specific words Gouverneur Morris chose to begin the preamble to our Constitution: “We, the People, in order to build a more perfect Union…” It’s a remarkable word with ...

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So: not Alexander Hamilton, of whom you’ve probably heard (and sung along with) but Gouverneur Morris, who wrote the preamble ...