Want to buy an original copy of the U.S. Constitution?
The first page of the Constiution as eventually
ratified by the states.
One of only eight signed “ratification copies” of the United States Constitution and the only one known to be in private hands is now up for auction to be sold on September 28, 2024, the 237th anniversary of the day the existing congress (formed under the failing Articles of Confederation) voted to send it to the states for ratification.
The minimum bid is one million, but it will not be surprising if the auction produces a much higher selling price. The public will be able to view the document on September 13, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm (Eastern) at the Federal Hall National Memorial at 26 Wall Street in New York, the location where that congress debated and voted for the new Constitution.
The document’s recent history is intriguing.
This incredibly rare document was discovered in 2022 at Hayes Farm, a 184-acre plantation in Edenton, North Carolina. The property was purchased in 1765 by Samuel Johnston, who in 1787-1789 was governor of North Carolina and presided over the state’s two ratification conventions. In 1865, it was acquired by the Wood family, which has held it for seven generations. The document was found inside an old filing cabinet in 2022 when the property was being cleared out and sold to North Carolina for preservation under the care of the Elizabeth Vann Moore Foundation with assistance from the Edenton Historical Commission and the Town of Edenton.
If you want to register to submit your own bids, you can do so here.
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The first page of the Constiution as eventually
ratified by the states.
One of only eight signed “ratification copies” of the United States Constitution and the only one known to be in private hands is now up for auction to be sold on September 28, 2024, the 237th anniversary of the day the existing congress (formed under the failing Articles of Confederation) voted to send it to the states for ratification.
The minimum bid is one million, but it will not be surprising if the auction produces a much higher selling price. The public will be able to view the document on September 13, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm (Eastern) at the Federal Hall National Memorial at 26 Wall Street in New York, the location where that congress debated and voted for the new Constitution.
The document’s recent history is intriguing.
This incredibly rare document was discovered in 2022 at Hayes Farm, a 184-acre plantation in Edenton, North Carolina. The property was purchased in 1765 by Samuel Johnston, who in 1787-1789 was governor of North Carolina and presided over the state’s two ratification conventions. In 1865, it was acquired by the Wood family, which has held it for seven generations. The document was found inside an old filing cabinet in 2022 when the property was being cleared out and sold to North Carolina for preservation under the care of the Elizabeth Vann Moore Foundation with assistance from the Edenton Historical Commission and the Town of Edenton.
If you want to register to submit your own bids, you can do so here.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in the past two weeks has the mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuses to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
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JUSTICE / MISDIRECTION / INDOCTRINATION
“This message “JUSTICE IS A FULL CONTACT SPORT” in my opinion is fundamentally false and incorrect. And it is IMO designed to mislead those who follow him. Justice is not a sport! Justice as it relates to law and justice as structured by the American Constitution is about a theory of guaranteed equality and fairness before the law for the individual, the citizen. Justice in the face of the awesome absolute power of the government and its ability to deny citizens of their Rights to justice and fairness. Due process in other words. This is fundamental to America! ”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/on-justice-misdirection-and-indoctrination
Unless bidding to buy and burn it, someone on the Left will call bidding on this “racist.”
Seling vs Selling
The DNC will probably bid on the document so that Nancy Pelosi can tear it up like she shredded Tump’s State of the Union message. In a special televised ceremony, she will explain to the audience that the United States Constitution is a “threat to our democracy” and must be destroyed. You go, girl.
I would like the Nation to by it or if not that then maybe my local Museum could buy it.
It belongs in the Smithsonian Museum possibly?
Id love to see Trump buy it, and frame it and put it on his desk in the Oval Office when he retakes the position. Maybe we should start a go fund me, and see how many people we can get to pitch in a few dollars and buy it as a gift for him, and present it to him on Jan 06 when he is sworn in.