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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
“This simple-looking version is what started breathing life into the Constitution,” according to Brunk. A look at the preamble and ratification of the copy of the U.S. Constitution headed for ...
Alexander Hamilton's copy of the first printed draft The Constitutional Convention 's printers, Dunlap & Claypoole, printed the drafts and final copies of the United States Constitution . John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole had printed for Congress since 1775, including the first copies of the Declaration of Independence [ 1 ] and Articles of ...
"The idea of adopting a constitution may still trace its inspiration to the United States, but the manner in which constitutions are written increasingly does not." [ 17 ] [ 3 ] In particular, the study found that the U.S. Constitution guarantees relatively few rights compared to the constitutions of other countries and contains less than half ...
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.
That resolution, combined with Thomson's signature, makes the document an official ratified edition of the Constitution, the auction house said. A look at the preamble and ratification of the copy ...
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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 .