On May 25, 1787, delegates representing every state except Rhode Island convened at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania State House for the Constitutional Convention. During three months of debate, the delegates devised a brilliant federal system characterized by an intricate system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, that Big Beautiful System is now being dismantled by our president and his cowardly toadies in Congress. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?