JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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What does a do if the is uninhabitable?
Rent a new house! That's what did on Sept. 8, 1814, moving into the after British troops burned the White House.
National Photo Company collection, Library of Congress, 1910-1926.

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1787 the appointed a Committee of Style “to revise the
stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House," including .
Gouverneur Morris was the lead writer, penning “We, the People of the United States...”

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the Constitutional Convention unanimously approved the Copyright and Patent Clause. Madison
had first proposed patent protection on August 18. Learn more about his involvement with patents and
the Patent Office in “Patently Madison.”
montpelier.org/learn/patently-

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Marion duPont Scott, the last private owner of , died at home in 1983, at the age of 89.
In her will, Mrs. Scott expressed a desire that her heirs would transfer Montpelier to The National Trust for Historic Preservation so that it could be restored & furnished to the time period of .
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“Orange. September Court. 1771.”
This document in the Montpelier Collection features the remains of ’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past #250 years.

Court document, MF2014.22.2a-c, The Montpelier Collection.

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On May 29, 1787, The “Virginia Plan” written by was proposed by VA Edmond Randolph, and included the proposal “... that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States [and] to be of the age of _____ years at least …”.

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Join the Bobblehead George crew for a look at the Gilmore Farm, the only preserved and interpreted freedman’s home in the United States.
Check out Bobblehead George, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing unique, accurate, & entertaining educational content for
Life Long Learners of ALL ages.
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Aug. 12 1787 saw no end in sight at the .
He wrote to his father: “It is not possible yet to determine the period to which the Session will be spun out. It must be some weeks from this date at least, and possibly may be computed by months.”
Despite his misgivings, the delegates managed to complete the work just 5 weeks later.

Photo by Daniel James.
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Thanks to ’s notes, we can peer into much of the that , including the Committee of Detail report that recommended that “shall have been a citizen in the United States for at least three years before his election”.

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201 yrs ago, wrote to W. T. Barry, praising the Kentucky legislature for appropriating funds for general , which Madison saw as essential for good government. “We the People” needed a good education in order to govern ourselves.

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1787, wrote his father from the ,
“I am sorry that I cannot gratify your wish to be informed of the proceedings of the Convention. An order of secresy leaves me at liberty merely to tell you that nothing definitive is yet done..."

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1787: during the , wrote :
“I have taken lengthy notes of every thing that has yet passed, and mean to go on with the drudgery, if no indisposition obliges me to discontinue it."
📸Eric Hagemann, courtesy of Montpelier.

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Of all enemies of true liberty, is most to be dreaded, because it comprises & develops the germ of every other

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"The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."

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is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes

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Today is the birthday of former who we and back with a picture of a skull lodged in a rock at . If this speaks to you please repost it.

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