ASHEVILLE, N.C. — 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. Brunk ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — 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.

The final draft of the Articles of the Confederation and Perpetual Union was endorsed by the congressional representatives on Nov. 15, 1777.

In the second episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay Cost and Luke Thompson look at the Articles of Confederation, the first government of the United States.

The Brennan Center for Justice and the National Constitution Center present a symposium exploring how the Articles of Confederation shaped the U.S. Constitution.

YORK, Pa. — The city of York has a whole lot of history. It's even where a drafting of the Articles of Confederation took place before its adoption on Nov. 15, 1777.

In fact, as Yuval Levin reminds us in “American Covenant,” the whole point of the U.S. Constitution was to consolidate a republic that had nearly fallen apart under the Articles of Confederation.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — 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.

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.