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28 paź 2024 · Today, the original copy of the Constitution is kept in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. The Constitution is stored alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. The room that displays these three pivotal documents is called the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.
10 paź 2024 · In October 1934, as the Archives building was nearing completion, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the first archivist of the United States, Robert Connor, that he thought that the Charters of Freedom and other important historic documents should be housed in the National Archives.
21 wrz 2022 · The Constitution acted like a colossal merger, uniting a group of states with different interests, laws, and cultures. Under America’s first national government, the Articles of Confederation, the states acted together only for specific purposes.
14 wrz 2010 · They include: • The original text of the "Virginia Plan," Edmund Randolph's proposal for a national government that included three co-equal branches: "supreme legislative, judiciary and...
7 gru 2010 · The museum wing of the National Archives, the National Archives Museum is the home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Located at 701 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20408.
Encounter the original founding documents of the United States in the National Archives Rotunda, the permanent home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights.
Constitution of the United States in its encasement in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom
