Detailed Instructions: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
Problem:By 1868 and the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, we were perched on the threshold of a constitutional revolution. An entirely new legal order was yearning to work its way clear from the turmoil of the 1860s.
Solution:
By 1868 we were perchedf on the threshold of a constitutional revolution.  A new legal order was to work its way clear from the turmoil of the 1860s.