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Washington — A dramatic experience awaits Americans who have never seen the original Declaration of Independence.
The historic document, which j is magnificently enshrined in i the Exhibition Hall of Washington's National Archives Building, is faded and discolored, says the National Geographic Society. Most of its signatures are illegible.
Yet the very scars have meaning. They tell of perils survived by the parchment that proclaimed these “self-evident” truths: “that all men are created equal . . . endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Today, the Declaration of Independence is protected by every means known to science. For nearly 150 years, however, it was the most traveled, handled, and innocently abused of America’s state papers. Signed August 2, 1776
Contrary to popular belief, the Declaration adopted on July 4, 1776, was not signed that day. The document in the Archives Building did not even exist then. Congress, on July 19, ordered it to be engrossed from the much-edited, Jefferson-drafted charter.
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