非盟宪法日

U.S. 宪法 Fun Facts

According to the National Archives, there are many surprising facts about the blueprint of the federal government:

• The speaker is the second in line to the presidency, after the vice president, under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. 

• Two founding fathers and future presidents were not at the 宪法al Convention in 1787 and did not sign the 宪法. John Adams was ambassador to Great Britain, and Thomas Jefferson was ambassador to France. 

• The 宪法 provides for two senators from each state, but it does not set the size of the House. 这是法律规定的. It has been 435 since 1912. The original first amendment to the 宪法 sought to deal with this issue, but it was never ratified by enough states to become part of the 宪法. 

• The 宪法 was placed with the Department of State in 1789, and stayed in its custody until 1921, when it was transferred to the Library of Congress. It was exhibited there from 1924 until 1954, when it came to the National Archives.

• Amendments to the 宪法 are repealed by adding another amendment. 

• Only one Amendment to the 宪法 has been repealed — the 18th (Prohibition).

• The last time the 宪法 was moved (to return it after preservation treatment to the renovated rotunda in 2003), it was transported by a convoy of guarded trucks. In 1921, 然而, "Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam went to the State Department, 签署收据, placed the Declaration and 宪法 on a pile of leather U.S. mail sacks and a cushion in a Model-T Ford truck, returned with them to the Library of Congress, and placed them in a safe in his office."

• Six men signed both the Declaration of Independence and 宪法: George Read, 罗杰·谢尔曼, 本杰明•富兰克林, 罗伯特•莫里斯, George Clymer and James Wilson.

• The 宪法 does not require that the speaker of the House of Representatives be a member of the House, although a nonmember has never been chosen speaker.

• The four p年龄s of the 宪法 are on permanent display at the National Archives. But there is a fifth p年龄 — the Letter of Transmittal of the newly written 宪法 to the Congress that existed under the Articles of Confederation. 这封信, which briefly describes the 宪法, is signed by George Washington, president of the 宪法al Convention. 日期是9月. 17, 1787, the anniversary of which we celebrate each year as 宪法日.