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When Congress Proposed the Bill of Rights: September 25, 1789

Engrossed joint resolution proposing twelve amendments to the Constitution, September 25, 1789. National Archives.

On September 25, 1789, the First Congress finished twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Ten became the Bill of Rights in 1791.

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The Letter from St. Louis: September 23, 1806

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin, Meriwether Lewis, ca. 1805. Library of Congress.

On September 23, 1806, Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis and Lewis wrote Jefferson that they had reached the Pacific.

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The Silver Plate Under the Capitol: September 18, 1793

William Thornton’s ca. 1793 east elevation of the U.S. Capitol, low dome. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07219. No known restrictions on publication.

On September 18, 1793, Washington marched from President’s Square to Jenkins Hill and laid the Capitol’s silver-plated cornerstone. The plate named James Hoban, who was building the President’s House the same year.

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