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The United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States since taking effect in 1789. The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788.
The draft Constitution receives the unanimous approval of the state delegations. [26] Howard Chandler Christy's 1940 Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States September 17 • Constitution signed and convention adjourns The approved Constitution is signed by thirty-nine delegates from twelve states (all but Rhode Island).
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 ...
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is normally observed on September 17, the day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in Philadelphia . [ 1 ]
Only a fraction of the 100 copies of the Constitution were signed by then-Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson in 1787. The one found in North Carolina is one of them.
The Signing of the United States Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, representing 12 states (all but Rhode Island, which declined to send delegates), endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention.
Only eight ratified copies of the United States Constitution exist — and one of them is set to be auctioned off in Asheville this month. ... Only a few out of the 100 copies of the Constitution ...
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.