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A Joint Resolution was first introduced in the House in 1937 to pay Christy $35,000 to paint Signing of the Constitution. Heated debate arose, however: some members of Congress were in favor of memorializing one of the greatest events in American history, but others held deep reservations about spending the funds for art during a period of ...
And as I said originally, if all the images are so valuable, they will most likely maintain their own article, and be featurable as individual images. --jjron 11:34, 14 January 2009 (UTC) As Wadester explained, the first page of the Constitution alone is insufficient to maintain its own article.
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Jacob Shallus or Shalus (1750–April 18, 1796) [1] was the engrosser or penman of the original copy of the United States Constitution. The handwritten document that Shallus engrossed is on display in the Rotunda of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
How much is a copy of the original Constitution worth? The starting price for the document is $1 million, but experts expect it will sell for much more. According to the document listing on Brunk ...
On July 24, 1787 convention delegates selected a Committee of Detail to prepare a draft constitution reflective of the resolutions passed by the convention up to that point. [4] The committee's final report, the constitution's first draft, included twenty-three articles, plus a preamble, represented the constitution's first draft. Overall, the ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several ...