AMPU.ORG will be a permanent reference utility for the Constitution, which will be exhaustively, interactively indexed and cross-referenced with other pertinent historical documents and texts—including Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers.
There are of course other interactive approaches to the Constitution elsewhere on the Web, but nothing like this. In order to engage users into spending increasing amounts of time exploring the Constitution, A More Perfect Union is densely populated with characters and information-based gags. The objective here is to make and keep the promise that any bit of information retrieved will be accompanied by a humorous, or at least intriguing payoff, promoting the sense that wherever we might be on the site, there is always a new, delightful, and completely accessible discovery just around the corner. On the simplest level, each tenet of the Constitution would be extracted from the original text, and clearly, simply explained.
Pros and cons contemporary with both the time of initiation of the principle and present day would then be simply and concisely presented as easily readable articles drawn from a national pool of contributors. This pool will consist of established scholars in constitutional history and law who would serve as consultants on an ad hoc basis, as well as a network of students nationwide who would be invited via calls posted in university journals to submit brief pieces, and paid reasonably though fairly for selected submissions. The articles would be edited for clarity and consistency within the voice of the site (also for appropriateness and contextual integrity of jokes that punctuate facts).