Joseph J. Ellis author of American Creation which happens to be a national best seller who has written other books such as His Excellency, Founding Brother, American Sphinx, Passionate essay, after the revolution, and school for soldiers. What the author does to make this book truly unique is give us a brief account of the birth of America after multiple attempts to establish a government. It tells us how we use a very different culture to build our government from deciding whether we should have a dictatorship like in England or not, but have a democracy like the Romans. Joseph brings important arguments that could not be resolved at the time we were building the Constitution, about how we should govern a long-term discussion about the federal-state question and the power of the judiciary. This led to the birth of the three branches of government we have today in our modern country. This allowed the government to evolve and allowed others like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. to be founders of the peace and freedom of what we as Americans decided to be what we wanted to be...