Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of founders gathered in Philadelphia with quill pens, ink, and parchment to draft what would become one of the most durable governance frameworks in modern history: the U.S. Constitution. The framers couldn’t have foreseen the technological revolutions that would follow, from global electrification to the internet and artificial intelligence.
Yet they managed to create a system resilient enough to endure revolutions, technological upheaval, and centuries of reinvention.
