The American Creation

In Joseph Ellis' book, American Creation, he writes his third chapter titled "the argument". Now as I read this chapter, I began to realize that no matter how far I read on, he seems to not directly specify which argument. Who is arguing? About what topic? Why are they arguing in the first place? Soon I realized I had answered my own question with a question. Let me elaborate:
In 1783, the War for Independence was over. James Madison and his friends George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, and Patrick Henry were all vital parts during the constitutional convention. ironically, however, none of them were fully supportive of the constitutional settlement, which was more of a painful compromise than a clean argument concerning political theory. Even since the beginning of our nation, the constitutional convention, and most of our political matters, have been nothing close to easy. the convention, later on, won out, which was what you could call our "unprecedented version" of federalism. regardless of how well it went, it was not forgotten how "messy" it was due arguing, bickering, and seeming to go nowhere. Due to our countries new political system, others thought it was something absurd. All of our uncertainty to coming to a solid agreement seems to bring us to a never- ending peace. But how do we explain that we have the most successful working system? arguing. To explain it a little more, let's compare it to our spirituality. When we look at the world and all the bad that happened, from the lives ended from hunger to the deciding candidate for a future leader, it seems to go in a circle of this never ending peace. So why wouldn't God just erase it all and make the world a perfect place? Well, he could, but when you take away one of two options, it leaves you with no options at all. We as Christians would have no say as to how we would live. We would be living as mindless robots. would you want to love something that stripped you of your options or freedom of choices? No. So, even though we as a country may seem to be going nowhere, or never agreeing with each other, it is our duty as Americans to be thankful for the freedom of arguing. Otherwise, we could have a country that has "no disagreements", but the small downside is that's something called slavery.