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We are living through a wild moment in American history. There are conspiracy theorists on

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Chapter one, American history. Good evening from South Abyss, New York. I'm quick

brooding in tonight. I'll be your auctioneer for a very special evening sale. For when the

rarest and most prized pieces of American history, a first printing of the United States Constitution,

dating to 1787. This was the scene when evening last November in Manhattan.

Sotheby's, the auction house, was selling an actual printed copy of the US Constitution. By the

end of the night, it would be the most expensive document ever auctioned, beating out the magna

carda and Leonardo da Vinci's journal. The little introduction on his importance, the United States

Constitution is the longest continuing charter of government in the world and the product of a

revolution in political thought, at least as important and far reaching as a fight for American

independence. 235 years ago, when the Constitution was originally written, it was penned by an engrosser

in Philly named Jacob Chalice. He printed on animal skin, either calf sheep or goat, and he was

paid the equivalent of about $30 in Pennsylvania Continental currency. Afterwards, 500 types at copies

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