Pushkin.
It's May 25, 1787, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
And the normal morning hustle is beginning to take over the streets.
Four strong carriages pound over stone cobblestones as vendor carts with their loud iron wheels trickle into the road.
Merchants chat with potential buyers.
and pedestrians who cross the road get their usual taunting by the men incarcerated in the four-story Walnut Street prison who are seeking out alms.
It's in the midst of this bustling 18th-century urban scene that dozens of powdered-wig leaders from across the land begin filing into Pennsylvania's statehouse.
They'd soon be taking part in a series of conversations that would change the fate of the nation.
The stated goal of their historic meeting,
which newspapers at the time called the Grand Convention of States,
and history books would later call the Constitutional Congress,
was to fix the previously ratified Articles of the Confederation.
But the real intention of the convention was to do something which at the time had never been done before.
The delegates planned to draft a constitution that would create a new kind of government.
If you're at all familiar with U.S.
history, you probably know what happened in the months that followed.
The U.S.
Constitution was born.
And from today's vantage point,
it might seem inevitable that these leaders would succeed in their grand mission.