The Flawed Birth of the Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was born from total failure. America's first

government was a complete disaster—the country was broke, states printed worthless money,

and farmers were literally storming courts. It was chaos. So the founders

met, scrapped the whole thing, and started over. They fought over

everything. Big states wanted power based on population; small states wanted equal power.

The solution? The Great Compromise: a two-part Congress. But then came the darkest deal: counting

enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for political power. It was a messy,

flawed document, and it only passed after they promised to add the Bill of Rights.