History instructs us that America was born of a revolution. That revolution was carried out by the thirteen colonies who had come to exist under the governing authority of the British monarchy. A war was fought between the colonials and the red coats. Against extraordinary odds, the colonial fighting force emerged triumphant. A constitution was drafted and ratified by the respective sovereign states and the newly minted American nation came into existence. Interestingly, however, was the fact that the original Constitutional Convention was actually a …