In the house America had been born, The Constitution to Secure the Liberties hard won was adopted

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Vignettes of Americana issued for the new Lostage Rates 1976 United States 13. NOV 15 1975 FIRST DAY OF ISSUE In the house America had been born, The Constitution to Secure the Libertics hard won was adopted 1787 ficial First Day Cover PHIA.PA

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Heetwood 13c AMERICAN FLAG Sheet Stamp One of America's most cherished buildings, Inde May, 1775. There the Declaration of Independence was pendence Hall, stands in Philadelphia's Independence adopted on July 4, 1776. And, there fifty-five delegates National Historical Park as a monument to the new from twelve of the thirteen colonies met on May 25, 1787, republic founded there two centuries ago. Begun in 1732 to hammer out what has proved to be the most durable as the State House where the Pennsylvania assemblymen national document in the history of the world, the United would meet, the tower itself, which would house the States Constitution. No place in America better sym- Liberty Bell, was not completed until 1753. Built of red bolizes the dauntless courage, the enlightened wisdom, or brick in the Georgian style, it was the center of political the far-reaching vision of America's colonial patriots and life in early Philadelphia. As the colonies contemplated statesmen than does Independence Hall. Beneath its roof independence, it was there that John Hancock (1737 the most unique and the most lasting form of government 1793) called the Second Continental Congress to order in the world has ever seen was born.