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This book is a history of the Federal Convention in Philadelphia that resulted in the Constitution of the United States. A review of the events and personalities surrounding the Constitutional Convention of 1787 concluding with the debate and the final product.

In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the soldier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.

The title, taken from the Great Seal of the United States (which is seen on the reverse side of the dollar bill), means "a new order for the ages." In this major new interpretation of the framing of the US Constitution, Forrest McDonald brilliantly explains the philosophical origins from which this "new order" was born.

McDonald deftly recreates the intellectual world of the amazing fifty-five men whose genius and passion gave to us the United

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George Washington rescued the nation three times: first by leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, second by presiding over the Constitutional Convention that set the blueprint for the United States and ushering the Constitution through a fractious ratification process, and third by leading the nation as its first president. After the War of Independence, the states were no more than a loosely knit and contentious confederation...

Examines the Founding Fathers' feelings and thoughts as they entered the Constitutional Convention, emphasizing their limited expectations in the wake of the national crises they faced.