Summary
The preface sets up what was going on before the American Revolution and mood for the rest of the novel. The author puts an emphasis on the inevitability of the revolution, and also the significance of it. After America gained its independence, few believed the young country would survive. America did not have a working government, and the country was a mess. The "founding fathers" were determined to keep America together and working-- so they came together to write the American Constitution in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.