About the Genesis of We the People Project
The Discovery – Late in 2025, a retired craftsman with an eye for detail and a love of history made a monumental discovery—American Founder James Wilson’s working copy of William Blackstone’s An Analysis of the Laws of England. For 238 years, cryptic marginalia inside of this book had veiled the fact that this volume was present at America’s 1787 Constitutional Convention.
Containing dynamic Convention-specific diagrams and notations, this book provides a previously unimaginable live and unedited account of the creation of the United States Constitution. This volume, however, is far more than documentation of the Convention proceedings. With Blackstone serving as James Wilson’s primary ideological opponent at the Convention, this volume played a central role in the revolutionary creation of a nation of We the People.
The Mission – The mission of this website is to facilitate the negotiated philanthropic placement of this archive in an appropriate institution for preservation and electronic public dissemination. Until then, this site will serve as a temporary repository for this premier artifact of one of the great turning points in the epic of human liberty.
