History buffs, political junkies and anyone who’s ever muttered “We the People” under their breath, take note: One of the rarest documents in American history will be making a cameo in Queens this weekend—and you can see it for free.

From September 19 to 21, the King Manor Museum in Jamaica will host a public exhibition of an extraordinarily rare printed draft of the U.S. Constitution, on loan from Christie’s. This isn’t just any draft, either. It’s the very first version to use the now-iconic words “We the People of the United States” instead of a laundry list of individual states. Even more, this copy belonged to Rufus King, a Founding Father, U.S. senator and abolitionist whose former home is now the very museum staging the show.

The draft bears King’s own handwritten edits—nerd

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