Tag: constitution225
Constitution 225: And the winner is….
In honor of the 225th anniversary of the Constitution, we challenged citizens on Twitter to take the Preamble of the Constitution and distill its meaning into a twitter-sized bite. The Archivist of the United States chose the winner on the Constitution Day. Congratulations to Jean Huets, who will receive a pocket-sized Constitution from the Foundation [...]
Posted by Hilary on September 18, 2012, under - Constitution, Uncategorized.
Tags: Archivist, Constitution, constitution day, constitution225, Preamble, Twitter
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Constitution 225: It takes a committee to write a Preamble
Today’s post was written by National Archives volunteer Paul Richter. It is part of a series tracing the development of the Constitution in honor of the 225th anniversary of this document on September 17, 2012. By the second week of September, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had hammered out nearly all of the details [...]
Posted by Hilary on September 11, 2012, under - Constitution.
Tags: Committee of Style, Constitution, constitution225, constitutional convention, We the People
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Constitution 225: The President
Today’s post was written by National Archives volunteer Paul Richter. It is part of a series tracing the development of the Constitution in honor of the 225th anniversary of this document on September 17, 2012. The President of the United States is one of the most famous positions in the world. But the first [...]
Posted by Hilary on August 21, 2012, under - Constitution, - Presidents, Facial Hair Fridays, Uncategorized.
Tags: Constitution, constitution225, constitutional convention, Electoral College, george washington, POTUS, President
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