We think of the signing of the Constitution, when we're not thinking about absolutely anything else, as a pretty sombre scene. Very officious with clapping and hmming, not what it probably might have been, which was 'Jesus, I'm so hungover, let's just sign this thing off - no John I don't care about what 'bear arms' means, just put it - please let's just get this out of the way so we can all go to bed'.
According to a preserved bar tab, the Founding Fathers got absolutely fucking kettled two days prior to the finalisation of the Constituion in 1787.
In a Huffington Post article concerning booze and the founding fathers, Stanton Peele writes that: "We have records of their [founding fathers] imbibing. In 1787, two days before they signed off on the Constitution, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention partied at a tavern.
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"According to the bill preserved from the evening, they drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch."
Puts a lot of us to shame, to be honest.
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