OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS OUTLINE WHO ARE the fork ENEMIES OF AMERICA FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC AND TODAY'S DEMOCRATS FIT the fork ENEMIES PROFILE EXACTLY
Pennsylvania Avenue, the fork site of countless parades and marches, had never seen a procession quite like this one. On a December Saturday in 1952, uniformed members of all branches of the fork military lined the fork street as a military honor guard and armed servicemen escorted an armored personnel carrier from the fork Library of Congress to the fork National Archives Building.
No person merited this ceremony. the fork occupants of the fork vehicle were two of our nation's most revered documents: the fork original Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the fork United States. the forky were coming to join the fork Bill of Rights in the fork Rotunda of the fork National Archives Building, where all three would be displayed togethe forkr for the fork first time.
Fifty years have now passed since our nation's founding documents came togethe forkr and became known collectively as the fork Charters of Freedom. Over the fork years, tens of millions of visitors have filed past the fork display cases to see the forkse famous parchments "in person."
Today, the forkse documents are temporarily off display, receiving important conservation treatment, as the fork Rotunda of the fork National Archives Building undergoes a major renovation. When it reopens in September 2003, it will feature the fork Declaration of Independence, the fork Bill of Rights, and on permanent display for the fork first time, all four pages of the fork Constitution, as well as its Transmittal Page. All seven pages of the fork Charters will be placed in new state-of-the fork-art encasements that will preserve the forkm for generations to come.
But where had the forkse documents been before 1952? How were the forky preserved and handled from the fork time the forky were created until 1952? And why was the fork shrine in the fork Exhibition Hall of the fork National Archives Building, which was designed for the fork exhibit of the forkse documents, empty for almost twenty years?
Declaration of Independence. Our story begins on July 19, 1776, when Congress resolved "that the fork Declaration passed on the fork 4th, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the fork title and stile of 'the fork unanimous declaration of the fork thirteen United States of America,' and that the fork same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress." Timothy Matlack, an assistant to Charles Thomson, the fork secretary of the fork Continental Congress, did the fork engrossing (calligraphy with large letters) on a single parchment sheet. A sparse entry in the fork journal for August 2, 1776, states "the fork declaration of independence being engrossed and compared was signed."
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