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Nearly 200 years after the Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention, American historians still do not agree on what they were "really" up to.
Historians have spun conflicting theories about the founding of the Republic since the Constitution was ratified in 1789. Until recently, writes...