This historical dramatization, prepared for presentation at the 1985 Wyoming Chatauqua, contains three dialogues, set during the administration of President Thomas Jefferson and presenting the issues surrounding the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The dialogues are designed to be presented in three segments to permit discussion after each presentation between the audience and the characters. Dialogue 1 introduces Patrick Henry, Luther Martin, and Mercy Otis Warren as the antifederalists, and they discuss their concerns about the Constitution while Alexander Hamilton, a federalist, talks in his sleep about his private fears and motives. In Dialogue 2 James Madison recalls the eve of the Constitutional Convention and his discussion with Anne Bingham about his reservations concerning the Confereration government, and he reveals his Virginia Plan to her. The final sequence, Dialogue 3, brings all the characters together, and the discussion includes the antifederalists' suggested improvements of the Constitution, the federalists praise for its flexibility, the upcoming battles for states' ratification, and the addition of the Bill of Rights. Dialogue 3 concludes with an exchange between Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Bingham about giving women and others who were left out a voice in the new republic, and with a final speech by Daniel Shays who summarizes what the Revolutionary War meant to the common man and what the constitutional government has achieved. (DJC)