Imagine a Constitution written when the air still smelled of revolution — not just one revolution, but two. Imagine Philadelphia in 1789, after the French Revolution made the dream of universal human equality a living political force. Imagine the delegates who might have walked through those doors of Independence Hall if the moment had been seized differently — men and women, Black and white, Native and Spanish, — all of them with something to say about what a republic could truly mean. Imagine the document they might have written. Each round, an article of the constitution is put up for consideration, which is either a Federalist, Anti-Federalist, Big State, or Small State issue. Players have a hand of three delegate cards that represent their respective states and also have a special ability. Players may use these cards' special abilities, use the cards to vote for or against the issue under consideration, or to try and claim tokens in each of the four types of issues. When a round ends, the issue either passes, or is flipped to its opposite side (Federalist/Anti or Big/Small). Players score points for having voted with the majority, and also for having tokens matching the issue types that are voted into the constitution. A More Perfect Union is a constitutional sandbox for 2–6 players, built around the great unresolved argument at the heart of the American founding: not merely how to structure a government, but who has the right to govern. Two complete scenarios are included in the box. —description from the publisher

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