America still is buried by the accumulation of debt from the revolutionary war. Secretary of Treasury Hamilton has a plan.   

We cover the story of the ratification of the Bill of Rights

We cover the creation of the court system and the earliest history of the Supreme Court.

President Washington selects his cabinet and sets the precedent on how cabinet meetings work.  

This wasn't really an election... not in the way we think of elections today. This was more like... a coronation by consensus.

We move to Virginia, whose ratification will complete the supermajority required for ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America.   

We turn to the debates in the Massachusetts ratification convention.   

The first major convention starts in Philadelphia with mobs forcing a vote for the date. Everyone knows, so goes Pennsylvania so goes the small states around them.    

The proposed constitution hit the newspapers, and public figures start taking positions and or writing with pen names to argue their points in the public sphere

Without records of all of the debates, I give the context of the materials we will cover in this season.