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Creating the US Constitution

A photograph of eighteenth-century colonial currency from Delaware.

A photograph of eighteenth-century colonial currency from Delaware.

Citation Information: “Colonial currency from Delaware,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/19d8da7b1b434580335b7b098ee23cd2.

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A photograph of eighteenth-century colonial currency from Delaware.

An illustration of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

An illustration of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The voting record of the Constitutional Convention, 1787.

The Federalist Papers No. 51 by James Madison.

An 1880 print by Henry Bryan Hall showing Patrick Henry addressing the Virginia Assembly.

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