Pressed by time in its composition, but timeless in its endurance, the Constitution of the United States is the world’s longest-living and least-amended basic law. This month, one of the world’s newest legal forms – a consortium of crypto investors organised in a decentralized autonomous organisation calling itself ConstitutionDAO – was unsuccessful in its attempt to buy one of the 13 surviving originals of the document drafted at Philadelphia in 1787, losing out to a $43 million bid from hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin. The Philadelphia Convention brought together luminaries like Hamilton, Madison and Washington to craft a constitution with which…

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