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The first draft of the Bill of Rights, published today in 1789

This rare newspaper has a full printing of seventeen amendments to the Constitution approved by the House of Representatives on August 24. On May 4, 1789, two months into the first session of the...

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One of the last drafts of the Bill of Rights, published on this day in 1789

This very rare printing of twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution, approved by the Senate on September 9, 1789, but not yet reconciled with the House, was published in the New-York Daily...

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An unparalleled offering of presidential commissions—from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln—covering the most significant career advances of Joseph G. Totten, Chief Engineer of the U.S. Army, who...

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