Scouting, Volume 63, Number 1, January-February 1975 Page: 27
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has ever since held this country together and kept it great.
As a bulwark of the greatest of modern republics, the U.S. Constitution
has served as a model and symbol for free-thinking governments every-
where in the world. Almost 100 years after it was signed, Britain's great
Prime Minister and legal giant W. E. Gladstone saw it as "the most wonder-
ful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."
The story of how the U.S. Constitution came into existence is of particu-
lar interest now while so many of its basic precepts are being reviewed and
tested as the nation looks forward to its 200th birthday in 1976.
A great charter of liberty in its own right, the Constitution is still greatly
Artist Thomas
Pritchard Rossiter
(1818-1871)
painted the Consti-
tutional Convention
years after event.
Unexplained are the
halo behind
Washington's head
and the boy
playing on the floor.
Can you locate
Benjamin Franklin?
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 63, Number 1, January-February 1975, periodical, January 1975; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353656/m1/27/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.