PROFESSOR PC'S CLASSROOM, Updated 3:04 p.m. EDT September 2, 2000 -- Take a game show formula combine it with the 55 Founding Fathers who attended the 1787 constitutional convention and you have a game-slash-political science show that should be a huge ratings success in this election year.

Call it, "Who Wants to Marry a Founding Father?"

For instance, if you choose a Northern marital candidate and don't mind escorting a peg-legged man then the Founding Father for you would be Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania. He spoke more than any other at the convention, 173 times and, as it turns out, was the guy who actually drafted the constitution. That alone, should get the wife of this guy into any of those snooty inaugural balls.

If you'd prefer someone called the "Little Lion" with a penchant for dueling, you may want to go with this man. It's Alexander Hamilton who virtually designed the American monetary system as the first secretary of the treasury. Unfortunately, you'll be losing your mate in his late forties to a gunshot inflicted by a former Vice-President, but if anyone ever wants to know what he looked like, just show 'em a ten dollar bill.

"Who Wants to Marry a Founding Father" is part of the University of Missouri At Kansas City's Law School web site. It's in the Constitutional Conflicts section which is a treasure trove of, not only eligible bachelors of the country-forming-variety, but of discussions of constitutional questions effecting us all.

It's great for the kids in this election year, and just to be fair, you can also select "Who Wants to Marry a Founding Mother."

There weren't any women at the convention but what the heck I picked Abigail Adams. That hat really does it for me.

Class dismissed.