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George Washington's U.S. Constitution up for auction [today at New York City's Christie's]
Reuters ^
| June 13, 2012
| Chris Michaud
Posted on 06/22/2012 6:02:22 AM PDT by ETL
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Shouldn't something as historically precious as this be displayed at a museum for all to see and appreciate?
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:02:31 AM PDT
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ETL
To: ETL
My birthday is in September...
To: ETL
(I’m sure that representatives of various museums will be bidding.)
To: ETL
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:05:22 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: ETL
That’s what I say. This is too precious to be “auctioned” off ..who is profiting from this? Worse, who will BUY it?
Is our liberty and freedom for sale?
Some may say yes to that.
To: ETL
It would be great if one of the rich Republicans would buy and donate it to a conservative Presidential Library!
To: afraidfortherepublic; Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
Please feel free to ping your Amer Hist list.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:07:13 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: classified
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:07:57 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
Something like this is a national treasure and should be in a museum.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:09:14 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
To: ETL
Considering our government isn’t using it’s copy... Maybe we should send them this copy.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:10:52 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
To: headstamp 2
Hopefully it is insured. Wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:12:27 AM PDT
by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
To: afraidfortherepublic
I’m sure that representatives of various museums will be bidding.What if a leftist piece of crap like Soros or Ted Turner buys it?
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:13:06 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
If Obama shows up at the auction, bids $100M and gets the document, and then sets fire to the document ...
... I'll consider that a bad sign.
To: ETL
Shouldn't something as historically precious as this be displayed at a museum for all to see and appreciate? The Constitution was reduced to ashes for all to see on January 20, 2009.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:14:27 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: ETL
What if a leftist piece of crap like Soros or Ted Turner buys it? ...then turns around and sells it for a nice profit to provide cash for anti-American causes.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:15:30 AM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ClearCase_guy
If Obama shows up at the auction, bids $100M and gets the document, and then sets fire to...That would be $100M of OUR (taxpayer) money.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:24:56 AM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Ezekiel
The Constitution was reduced to ashes for all to see on January 20, 2009. Sickening, how such a person could be elected president of the US considering all the info that was readily available on him prior.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:31:35 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: LibsRJerks
The document was the personal property of George Washington. Evidently it was sold by his heirs, or the trustees of his estate in 1876. Since then it has been legally sold until it became the personal property of this Mr. Dietrich. It is now part of his estate and the proceeds from the sale should go to the heirs of his estate for them to do with as pleases them.
It is the sale of a document of historical interest and I hope it ends up in a museum, but it is not a sale of our freedom or liberty.
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posted on
06/22/2012 6:33:53 AM PDT
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Cap Huff
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