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A detail of the actual chair George Washington sat in while presiding over the Constitutional Convention in 1787. At the signing, Benjamin Franklin was optimistic about the document and said that now he had the happiness to know that the carving on the back was a rising, not a setting sun. Photo courtesy of the US National Park Service.

A detail of the actual chair George Washington sat in while presiding over the Constitutional Convention in 1787. At the signing, Benjamin Franklin was optimistic about the document and said that now he had the happiness to know that the carving on the back was a rising, not a setting sun. Photo courtesy of the US National Park Service.

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