George Washington's signature is seen on the first president's personal copy of the Acts of the first Congress (1789), containing the Constitution and the proposed Bill of Rights. AP A book owned ...

Having set a world record, George Washington’s personal copy of the Constitution is heading home. A book containing Washington’s annotated Constitution and a draft of the Bill of Rights was ...

(CNN) -- A priceless piece of American presidential history will go on sale next week in New York. President George Washington's personal copy of the Acts of Congress, including the United States ...

When a book containing George Washington's personal copies of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights was first sold at a Philadelphia auction house in 1876, it was purchased for $13 — about ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – George Washington’s personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights sold for $9.8 million at auction on Friday, setting a record for any American book or … ...

A copy of the Constitution that belonged to the father of our country went for one mother of a price at auction yesterday — a record $9.8 million. George Washington’s book, leather bound for ...

George Washington's 223-year-old copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights are expected to go for bids of $2 million to $3 million at auction next week.

While many might think of James Madison as the father of the Constitution, George Washington is the man who made it all possible. Read more.

George Washington, the first, ... Curiously, one of the most famous founding fathers’ signature is missing from the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution.

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled over ...

President George Washington’s personal copy of the Acts of Congress, including the United States Constitution and a draft of the Bill of Rights with his own handwritten notations will be so.