A watermarked 1776 first draft of the Articles of ... printed for the Continental Congress and delegates to the Constitutional Convention for $43.2 million, a record for a book or document.

These include a first draft of the 1776 Articles of Confederation ... which was sent to the states for ratification after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, has a starting bid of $1 million.

Madison became a delegate to the Virginia Convention, which gathered in May 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain and to write a Constitution for Virginia. Madison objected to the use of ...