Read each state's mood, pick the right arguments, and arrange them into a ratifying speech.
Travel state by state during a ratification convention. Each audience leans a certain way and responds to certain topics. Select up to four arguments from your hand, order them into a speech, and clear the state's persuasion threshold to ratify before moving on.
Founding Clause is a persuasion and deck-ordering game set during the ratification debates, bringing the Constitution's making to life.
Travelling state by state, selecting and ordering arguments for an audience that leans a particular way, is the ratification debate that followed the Constitutional Convention.
Making the order of arguments matter is the original mechanic.
That is a fair reading of how it was actually fought. The Federalist Papers were written as persuasion for specific audiences rather than as neutral exposition, and ratification turned on a handful of states where the argument had to be built rather than merely stated.
Founding Clause is an original persuasion and deck-ordering game set during the ratification debates. Play free in your browser with a daily convention, an endless practice run and multiple difficulties.