Ive said before that ebay has just about everything for sale in it, but this is just ridiculous.

Crazy Ebay Auction....only $50,000 starting bid!

 

First off, if you're foolish to buy that then you need to die.



<new icon thanks to Ford Larait.

 

Shouldn't that be in a museum or something?

 

It is, it's in Washington D.C.

 

Wasn't the constitution signed in 1776??

 

Technically that's when we declaired our freedom from England.

 

From what it looks like, it is a reprint of the constitution which was written in 1776. The original consitution was handwritten and signed by a bunch of people...but this is obviously a printed book, which was printed in 1791, 15 years later. Although the book is approximately 212 years old, which indeed raises its value, it cannot be "the" original constitution. Wishful thinking for $50,000 is my guess...good luck to him.

 

 

USA declared independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. The colonies set about winning the war as a loose confederation, which was formalized as the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, on November 17, 1777, but wasn't ratified until 1781 (some time in March, I think - sue me, it's 1 AM and I'm doing this from memory).

The US Constitution we know and love was completed on September 12, 1787 and submitted to the states for ratification. The last one to sign up was Maryland on March 4, 1789. There being no such thing as a fax machine back then, it's entirely OK for it to be an original copy from 1791 as folks got the printing plates passed around.

 

You are spot on.

There were a number of copies of the "original" Constitution created. It is the same as the with the Declaration of Independence. There were a number of copies created for the colonies and for records.

The "original" Constitution as we think of it is the version that wound up in Washington and is now in the National Archives.

-Don

 

I've learned more here in this post
Than all my years in School put together

Lots of mind altering drugs back in the school years,
But I do remember something about a constitution of something

 

Good job, but I think the "constitution" he is selling is just a reprint, as you said for the colonies to have a copy.

The orininal one that our founding fathers signed in in D.C.