raphael next turned to histories of the constitution: "president: how and why the founders created a chief executive" (2012) and "constitutional myths: what we get wrong and how to get it right" (2013). his "the u. s. constitution: the citizen's annotated edition" (2016) walked readers through the document clause-by- clause and amendment-by- amendment. what was the intent of the framers? how was it understood back then, and how is it interpreted today? interweaving historical and contemporary contexts, he translated "constitution-ese" for our time. working with the constitutional sources project (consource), raphael has developed a series of interactive lesson plans—"choosing to make a nation"—in which students participate in debates as delegates to the constitutional convention or members of congress in the early republic.