First Draft Of Constitution Found

“I felt like an actor in the movie National Treasure, but [actor] Nicolas Cage was nowhere to be found. However, what I found was a national treasure — the real national treasure.”
-Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler proves that historians can be as vapid and mundane as the rest of us. Toler recently discovered an early draft of the United States Constitution written by Framer James Wilson. The draft, which had been misplaced amongst Wilson’s papers, differs from the final Constitution as passed by including an article which calls for the will of the people to be constrained by a minority of 40 senators, particularly if any of them have posed naked in popular periodicals of the day. The document also follows the famous formation “We the people” with the lyrics to “We’re Gonna Groove,” previously thought to have been written by Ben E. King and James A. Bethea.