A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation

Release: July 04, 1989

A film made in celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the US Constitution being drafted. In the period following the Revolutionary War, a young James Madison finds that the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first set of sovereign laws, are not sufficient to govern the new nation. Madison has an idea for a new document, but must first get the approval of President Washington.

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James Madison: "If we could just get the states together, to talk outside their cursed legislatures."

George Mason: "Talk? About what?"

Jaems Madison: "Well, talk about trade, about laws, about a more effective union. About anything. If, if honest, influential men, met together representing their states, men like General Washington, and Dr. Franklin, and yourself, sir. I have the greatest admiration for your writing Virginia's Constitution and her Declaration of Rights. Sir, may I count on your help?"

George Mason: "I am a friend to your cause, sir. But the indispensable friend is General Washington. As he goes, so goes America."

James Madison: "Yes sir. And we must get him. Unless our national government is strengthened, then the states will soon turn to the sword to resolve their separate jealousies."

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