The National Constitution Center has expanded its museum experience! Visit the Center to see this copy of the Constitution printed in The Pennsylvania Packet newspaper on September 19, 1787. This printing was the first opportunity for “We the People of the United States” to read the constitution that had been drafted during the summer of 1787. This artifact in the National Constitution Center Collection (gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.), featured in our newly reopened core exhibit, is one of only 25 copies known to have survived.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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