ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago and sent to the states to be ratified was sold for $9 million at an auction Thursday evening in North Carolina.

On July 4, 1854 in Massachusetts, he burned a copy of the constitution. "The Constitution of the United States of America is the source and parent of all the other atrocities: 'a covenant with ...