The Story of the Constitution"That the people may study the document itself, the text of the Constitution and of all the amendments is given, and given as nearly as possible exactly as in the originals from the engrossed parchment of the Constitution as signed by George Washington to the Twenty-First Amendment as proclaimed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the Constitution from our first president to our present President."--Introduction. |
Contents
Portraits and Sketches of the Signers of the Constitution | 54 |
Resolution and Letter of the Convention | 78 |
Alphabetical Analysis of the Constitution | 96 |
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