Missing Bill of Rights copy recovered WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI has recovered a valuable copy of the Bill of Rights that had been missing for 138 years, bureau sources said Wednesday. The document, one of 14 copies of the Bill of Rights commissioned by President George Washington, is worth an estimated $30 million, the FBI said. It was stolen from the North Carolina Statehouse by a Union soldier during the Civil War, officials said. "A carpetbagger took it in 1865," said one official. "It's really priceless." The document was recovered by the FBI in Philadelphia on Tuesday in an undercover operation when an individual attempted to sell it, officials said. The copy is believed to have been in North Carolina in recent years, but officials were uncertain where it had been for most of the past 138 years. The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. It was demanded by many states as a condition to ratifying the Constitution. They were ratified in 1791. In a related event, a few minutes after recovering the prized document, John Ashcroft wiped his a$$ with it.
The need for the last sentence of this article in an American news story is more frightening to me than the prospect of war with Iraq. (not really...i sometimes like to use exaggeration to make a point)
ok..i'm an idiot...i'm criticizing peoples' intelligence, and i call a paragraph a sentence. nice. "hey, everyone! look at the idiot!!!"
Quick question How many copies of the Declaration of Independence are there? How many copies of the Consitution are there? Thanks.
Since the succession of North Carolina would not be legally recognized, then it should still be the property of the State of North Carolina. There might not be criminal penalties enforceable for possessing it or selling it at this late date, but it would still be the property of the State of North Carolina (or the U.S. Government if on loan), and subject to seizure and return to its rightful owner.
