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A Room With the Windows Shut : The Story of Constitution Day
Overview
Fifty-five men spent the hottest summer anyone could remember shut inside a room in Philadelphia with the windows closed so that nobody outside could hear them arguing. They argued about everything. They nearly walked out more than once. Some of them lost the arguments that mattered most to them and signed anyway. One of them refused to sign at all. What came out of that room is the oldest working national constitution on earth, and it opens with three words about who it belongs to. This is the story of how it was made, what it left unfinished, and the clerk who wrote the whole thing out by hand in a single night for thirty dollars and whose name appears nowhere on it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798952854178
- ISBN-10: 9798952854178
- Publisher: Jeffersonian Institute of America
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 26
- Reading Level: Ages 7-12
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