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Nation & World
Democracy? Some of founders were skeptical.
Historians detail how, why Constitution became (and remains) work in progress
Liz Mineo
Harvard Staff Writer
September 21, 2026
5 min read
Part of a series of occasional features marking the nation’s semiquincentennial. Creating a democracy was not really at the forefront of the founders’ m…