Bill of Rights at last finds its way home.

PositionThe Law - Brief Article

In April 1865, at the end of the Civil. War, a Union soldier snatched a copy of the Bit[ of Rights from North Carolina's Statehouse and marched home to Ohio with it. Now, 138 years later, North CaroLina appears tobe getting it back. The sheepskin document is one of only 14 official copies of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. After the Civil War, it vanished, surfacing occasionally. In March, two Connecticut antique collectors tried to sell it to a museum...

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