Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States

Some excellent but unknown actors gave us an interesting but distorted -- on purpose -- history of the creation of the Constitution.

In both the Declaration and the Treaty of Paris, that ended the War for Independence, the 13 seceding colonies were termed "sovereign" and "independent."

Unfortunately, politicians -- yes, even back then -- created so many problems for the confederated states, including trying to place tariffs on products from other states, debts, taxes, trade itself, were made onerous and difficult.

The War had created obscene debts, even though the military forces stole everything they could from the people they were supposedly trying to serve (stole, mind you, at the orders of their officers, including Gen'l. George Washington). How to levy taxes for the national debt was one problem. They said.

Anyway, this short film propagandizes for repealing the Articles of Confederation and establishing the Constitution.

As history, an awful lot is missing, including Benjamin Franklin, but it can be used as an introduction and maybe an invitation for people to try to find out more.

That Constitution, flawed as it was, is still better than any similar such document in the world. Too bad that the federal government generally ignores it today.

It's probably difficult to find a copy of this film, but it was shown on Tuesday night, 2 August 2022, on TCM.