Constitution Day

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
--The Who

On this day in 1787, 39 of the original 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document. The Constitution would subsequently be forwarded to the states for ratification, a process that took until June of the following year to obtain the nine state minimum necessary to make the document the law of the land.

While imperfect, the Constitution remains the strongest government design conducive to liberty yet devised. The parchment is old. The ideas remain fresh.

And radical.