Posted on 04/21/2017 6:32:46 PM PDT by simpson96
Two Harvard University researchers announced Friday that they have found a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence in a tiny records office in southern England.
The only other parchment copy is maintained by the National Archives in Washington, D.C., researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen said in a statement.
The newly discovered document — which the two have dated to the 1780s — was found in the town of Chichester archives, and is believed to have originally belonged to Duke of Richmond who was known as the “Radical Duke,’’ for the support he gave to Americans during the Revolutionary War, the researchers said.
The parchment was likely made in New York or Philadelphia. The researchers are still trying to determine the person who wrote the document and who paid for the foundational document of the United States to be copied.
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Enter email address Sign Up The signatories on the Sussex version of the document are not broken down by state, something that distinguished it from the Declaration in the National Archives, the researchers said.
In an academic paper, the researchers say the document probably was commissioned by James Wilson of Pennsylvania, who later helped draft the Constitution and was among the original justices appointed to the Supreme Court.
“The team hypothesizes that this detail supported efforts, made by Wilson and his allies during the Constitutional Convention and ratification process, to argue that the authority of the Declaration rested on a unitary national people, and not on a federation of states,’’ the researchers wrote in the statement.
The team, working with British officials, is working to carefully test the document in a way that will not damage the parchment.
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So where did the Harvard University researchers find the first parchment copy in England? Oh, they didn't!
Even [/sarc] the Boston globe does not hire writer who can write or editors who can edit.
No one teaches plain English anymore.
How about "A parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence found in England," which is also bad writing because it is passive voice, but perhaps forgivable in a headline.
You’re right. I notice it all the time.
Didn’t they send a copy to king richard the third?
Wheres didthat copy end up?
With George III?
Lemon juice and a blow-dryer and hold your mouth just so.
Send them a quarter millennium anniversary reprint in ‘26.
Don’t you mean George III ?
You think there is a map on the back put there by Masons?
The Masons? I love their licorice candy.
Give it back pronto or we bomb the Chichester archives.
Two Harvard University researchers announced Friday that they have found, in a tiny records office in southern England, a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence in a tiny records office in southern England.
Admittedly, as a German-speaker, I have less problem with re-arranging clauses like that (German is more insistent upon this point than English).
How about "A parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence found in England," which is also bad writing because it is passive voice, but perhaps forgivable in a headline.
The original headline is actually okay, insofar as it includes a dash before "in England," making clearer that the discovery was merely in England, and not that it was the second of two parchments, both found in England.
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