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This requested move to lowercase clause's of the Constitution is already in a relisting, editors and readers of this page may have an interest. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“As its final act, the Congress of Confederation agreed to purchase 10 square miles from Maryland and Virginia for establishing a permanent capital.” I think this should be 100 square miles, i.e., the “ten Miles square” (10 miles x 10 miles) from Article I, Section VIII, Clause XVII. (The Virginia portion was given back in the 1846 retrocesssion.) 2601:1C2:100:80A:5A70:DF9A:4D2D:B7B8 (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at WT:MOS § Founding Fathers of the United States on whether the expression "founding fathers" should be in lower or upper case. Thanks. Allreet (talk) 22:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion affects this page and may be of interest to topic editors. It concerns the navbox {{Historical American Documents}}. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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(U.S. government sources The Constitution of the United States Explained, U.S. Congress: legal analysis and interpretation based primarily on Supreme Court case law) Change | https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/ | with | https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ | Because the link is dead, the second one is very good and is the new one. 190.141.81.136 (talk) 13:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --Ferien (talk) 15:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]