An engraved illustration of the signing the USA American Declaration of Independence, from a Victorian book dated 1880 that is no longer in copyright, courtesy of Getty Images
On Sept. 17, 1787, a group of men from 13 very different states signed their names on a document that would change the course of American history: the US Constitution.
More than 200 years later, we mark that day as Constitution Day.
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Six men signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution: in alphabetical order, they are George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, George Read, Roger Sherman and James Wilson.