Ignorance is no virtue and, unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of our heritage.
Ask anybody what they know about the ratification of the Constitution and most won't have a clue. Maybe they'll be able to spout the phrase, "the miracle at Philadelphia," from the title of the famous book by Catherine Bowen; but probably few can even do that. What do they know about the Constitution's contents? Most have never read it and know little or nothing.
How many, for example, know that ratification was not a foregone conclusion and that there was a bitter fight over it?
