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The Preamble's reference to the "United States of America" has been interpreted over the years to explain the nature of the governmental entity that the Constitution created (i.e., the federal government). In contemporary international law, the world consists of sovereign states (or "sovereign nations" in modern equivalent).
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 Confederation, and were designated Congress's official ...
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [ 3 ] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.
A look at the preamble and ratification of the copy of the U.S. Constitution headed for auction. ... a Constitutional Convention print for $43.2 million. That same document sold for $165,000 in ...
Historian Seth Kaller shows off a 1787 copy of the U.S. Constitution that will be put up for auction. AP. It’s one of about 100 copies printed by the secretary of that Congress, Charles Thomson ...
Seth Kaller with an original signed official ratification copy of the United States Constitution Sept. 16, 2024. The document, which was discovered in a North Carolina filing cabinet in 2022, will ...
t. e. The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation. It ended on September 17, 1787, the day the Frame of Government ...
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 ...