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The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world. [ 4 ] [ a ] The drafting of the Constitution , often referred to as its framing, was completed at the Constitutional Convention , which assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between May 25 and ...
The documents include the United States Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. While the term has not entered particularly common usage, the room at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. that houses the three documents is called the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom .
This isn’t the first time Kaller has participated in the auction of a historical document, working with Sotheby’s in November 2021 to sell a Constitutional Convention print for $43.2 million ...
Framers of the Constitution. National Archives and Records Administration. pp. 235– 241. ISBN 978-0-911333-43-5. Myers, Denys P. (1961). "History of the Printed Archetype". The Constitution of the United States of America. Congressional Serial Set. No. 12349. S. Doc. No. 49, 87th Cong., 1st Sess. United States Government Printing Office.
The last time a copy of the Constitution like this sold was for $400 in 1891. In 2021, Sotheby's of New York sold one of only 13 remaining copies of the Constitution printed for the Continental Congress and delegates to the Constitutional Convention for $43.2 million, a record for a book or document.
Another copy of the U.S. Constitution is headed to the auction block. Brunk Auctions of Asheville, N.C., will put the recently discovered document up for bids on Sept. 28, starting at $1 million ...