We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tran-quillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article. I ...

Nov 19, 2021 · Last modified on Fri 19 Nov 2021 09.44 EST. A rare surviving copy of the US constitution has sold at auction for a record $43.2m, with an unknown buyer beating a crowdfunded bid by a ...

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article. I.

The Philadelphia Convention ended its substantive work on Saturday the 15th of September 1787. The engrossed Constitution was signed on Monday the 17th. Later that day the delegates voted to adjourn. It did not take long for Dunlap and Claypoole to print 500 copies of the report of the Convention, including the proposed Constitution. By…

Read more. New York – An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby’s said. It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787 at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall by America’s founding ...

Sep 17, 2021 · The copy of the Constitution is on public view at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries until Sept. 19 and then travels to Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, before returning to New York this fall. It ...

Sep 17, 2021 · Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.

Answer (1 of 2): Well there is one original handwritten constitution that served as the first. That one was for the federal government and it’s on display in the National Archives building in Washington, D.C.. There were 13 other “copies” of the same constitution, each …

An exceptionally rare first-edition printed copy of the US Constitution fetched $43.2 million in New York on Thursday, becoming the most expensive historical document ever to sell at auction. The ...

Sep 17, 2021 · An extremely rare original copy of the United States Constitution — one of only 11 that survive — is set to be auctioned off this fall, Sotheby’s announced on Friday, and could sell for more ...

Nov 19, 2021 · An extremely rare original copy of the US Constitution sold Thursday for $43 million -- a world record for a historical document at auction -- with a cryptocurrency consortium that coveted the text outbid by another investor. Sotheby's auction house, which staged the sale, said the item was one of only 13 known surviving copies