WASHINGTON—In a finding that sheds light on the particular concerns and interests of the Founding Fathers, historians at the National Archives revealed this week that the original draft of the U.S. Constitution included 593 mentions of spiders. “Early renditions of the Constitution show us that James Madison and the…
WASHINGTON—In a finding that sheds light on the particular concerns and interests of the Founding Fathers, historians at the National Archives revealed this week that the original draft of the U.S. Constitution included 593 mentions of spiders.
“They were quite careful to outline the powers delineated to the spider branch of government, which you’ll see in the now-discarded Article VIII. Most intriguingly, you can look to the ambiguously worded Clause 1 of Section 2, which said American citizens had the right to own as many spiders as they wanted. There’s also the Bill of Rights’ so-called Arachnid Clause, which mostly consists of the word ‘spiders’ repeated several hundred times with period etchings of spiders in the margins.
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