Americans rightly celebrate Sept. 17 as Constitution Day — the day in 1787 that delegates in Philadelphia signed the United States Constitution. What we often forget is a letter that George Washington wrote on that same day to the Confederation Congress to accompany the proposed constitution.

In that letter, Washington described what had led to success at the convention over the previous four months: “The Constitution which we now present is the Result of a Spirit of Amity and of that mutual Deference & Concession which the Peculiarity of our political Situation rendered indispensable.”

In contrast to that spirit of amity in 1787, we now live in a society characterized by two political tribes (Team Blue and Team Red) that hate each other. Democrats and Republicans have more unfavorable v

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