At the tenth bell of morning, the Great Senate Chamber of Sunspire was packed to the vaulted rafters for the opening of the first constitutional assembly of the Commonwealth. For four hundred years, the circular marble amphitheater had been the exclusive domain of eighty aristocratic patricians who debated behind closed doors, using their hereditary seats to vote private tax exemptions and fund colonial wars. Today, the double cedar doors had…
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