The "Fourth Founding": How our Unelecteds Plan to Rewrite the Constitution (Part 1)

Inside the Foundation-Funded Blueprint to Restructure American Governance by the Nation's 250th Birthday. The Oldest Learned SocietyThe American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams and James Bowdoin. It holds a Massachusetts state charter granted by the Massachusetts General Court on May 4, 1780 — nine years before the Constitution was ratified. Its fellows have included Washington, Franklin, Einstein, Darwin, and almost every consequential American scientist and statesman for a quarter of a millennium. It now houses a project to restructure American governance. In the spring of 2018, a 93-year-old Republican billionaire named Stephen D....