I'm thankful for this newsgroup.

So I'm sittin' here, not writing, weeding out my outbox (in a nice way, I mean) and I came across a past post that makes me thankful for the on- and off-topic threads I've enjoyed over the years with you people.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Joe Myers
"Even Skip, who should be thankful
he's not crazier than he is."

(snips)
[nq:1]...this story would be after the war - The Constitutional Convention. It wouldn't be sugar-coated either. Warts and all. Has ... sex and substance abuse and drunken fighting in the streets. James Madison could be the main protagonist and stay sober...[/nq]
I think your problem would be with the "warts."
Given the conservative revisionist "original intent" crowd and their counterpart "politically correct" nigglers on the other side of the political
spectrum, people would hate the truth and just about any interpretation that would fill in gaps of the historical record.
For starters, your cast is a bunch of white guys.
Washington was a hemp farmer. Franklin was a womanizer. Just about everybody in those days drank a lot more rum than is considered socially acceptable these days. So you're right, a lot of sex and drugs and 18th Century rock 'n' roll (sitting around and singing the original lyrics to "Anacreon in Heaven," perhaps?) would be in the mix between sessions of the Continental Congress. There'd probably be a prostitute in the story and you'd lose Lois from the get-go.
And then there's the old 3/5th of a person issue. Like it or not, this nation's foundation was set in ink on parchment as thoroughly and decidedly racist. It's taken over 200 years, a bloody civil war, associations, filibusters, affirmative action and backlash to attempt to extricate ourselves from that, ahem, tar baby. And an authentic dramatization of how that issue was handled in 1789 would distress 21st Century ears.

Ultimately, the story is one about compromise. Big States, Little States, North, South, free, slave. If you got into the Bill of Rights, someone would have to depict how the Second Amendment got such strange punctuation, to the degree no one really knows how the Founding Fathers might vote on AK-47s in the classroom. The NRA and Handgun Control would be picketing every theater in the country.
An accurate portrayal of the theists who hammered out the document would *** off 21st Century Evangelicalists. More pickets outside theaters.

You'd have more people outside theaters than in.
Joe Myers
"Forget it, Jake. It's Philadelphia."