![]() The same was true for Americans in 1789 and beyond. history textbook in high school or college, or (more recently) on the website of the National Archives or another website that has published it. If you’ve read it-and it’s likely you have-you probably encountered the text in the back of a U.S. Millions of Americans have viewed the document since it went on display in the 1950s.īut like the copies of the Declaration and the Constitution that sit alongside it in the Rotunda, the parchment text of Bill of Rights is not meant to be readable. ![]() ![]() Standing in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, Liz and Jesse stood looking over the case at the parchment engrossed with twelve amendments to the Constitution signed in 1789 by the Speaker of the House, Frederick Muhlenberg, the President of the Senate, John Adams, and the clerks of each House of Congress. ![]() ![]() Last week as I was listening to Ben Franklin’s World, I was struck by the way in which Liz Covart and her guest, Jessie Kratz, talked about the Bill of Rights. Today’s post accompanies “Creating the First Ten Amendments,” episode 260 of Ben Franklin’s World and part of Doing History 4: Understanding the Fourth Amendment. ![]()
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