A rare sight has awaited visitors to the dimly lit Rotunda of the National Archives Building since mid-September. For the first time in the country’s history, the entirety of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution’s additional 17 amendments are on display together.

Tourists, locals, historians and the constitutionally curious have lined up each day outside the mausoleum-like room for an opportunity to peer at the hallowed, occasionally altered recipe for the republic. Many expressed awe of its audacious aspiration to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Advertisement

But, many too, were uneasy abo

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