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To: Sasparilla

Not enough information but “Typo”? Typewriter were not invented for a couple hundred years after the Constitution was written, probably with quill pens. Lets go to the original signed document to see what the law really is and leave the sensationalism behind.


7 posted on 07/04/2014 9:16:42 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

That’s my understanding: one cannot have a “typo” unless the document is printed with some sort of a machine.


10 posted on 07/04/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: mountainlion

“Typewriter were not invented for a couple hundred years after the Constitution was written, probably with quill pens.”

Your statement that the “Typewriter were not invented for a couple hundred years after the Constitution was written” is incorrect. I own a Caligraph typewriter that was manufactured about 1880-1883, so typewriters were in existence only 93 years after the Constitution was handwritten and engrossed in 1787.

Yes, the draft and final copies of the Constitution were handwritten and engrossed using quill pens.


32 posted on 07/04/2014 10:25:21 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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