The United States of America laid down from the best authorities, agreeable to the Peace of 1783 from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3700.ct000080
Maps and the U.S. Constitution
Constitution Week in the United States
Did you know the U.S. Constitution requires a Census every ten years (Article I, Section 2) to apportion representation—an effort that, in the 1790s, meant surveyors on horseback sketching population counts by hand and creating early maps of the young nation?
Today, map librarians preserve these paper maps and make them accessible through digitization (computer scanning) in collections:
Maps and atlases have been an important part of the collections of the Library of Congress since its beginning in 1800, when a joint congressional committee purchased three maps and an atlas from a London dealer. - U.S. Library of Congress
The David Rumsey Map Collection is a free collection of over 200,000 maps from 1550 to the present.
Want to learn more?
The National Archives resource list for Observing Constitution Day.
The Constitution and Census LibGuide (University of Rhode Island)
Check out this Wikipedia article on Population and Housing Censuses by country to find out when census started worldwide.
The Civics Institute at Fairmont State University Democracy Starts Here Constitution Week Events
As part of Constitution Week, the Civics Institute at Fairmont State University and the Fairmont State University GISC minor is pleased to host a presentation by Dr. Ken Martis titled “Gerrymandering – The Saga Continues.”
The event will take place on Wednesday, September 17, at 6:00 p.m. (Eastern) Falcon Center Conference Room 301.
Dr. Martis, a leading political geographer and will discuss the history, politics, and ongoing controversies of gerrymandering in the United States. This presentation is free and open to the public, and all are invited to attend.
Trivia & the Constitution: We the Know-It-Alls (Students only)
The original text of the United States Constitution is written in a style of cursive known as Copperplate (or Roundhand), also used in early cartographic mapping. Want to contribute to digitizing historical documents?
The National Archives looks for Citizen Archivists to transcribe cursive
https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions
