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    Constitution Gardens is a park area in Washington, D.C., United States, located within the boundaries of the National Mall. The 50-acre (200,000 m2) park...
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    Gardens maintains a number of gardens and landscapes near its museums. These include: Common Ground: Our American Garden (2017) Enid A. Haupt Garden (1987)...
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    as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or decreases the salary of members...
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    United States Declaration of Independence. It is located in the Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The memorial is accessible...
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    Constitution Avenue, NW, near Constitution Gardens. The building dates to a period when the south end of 17th Street, NW was a wharf and Constitution...
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    House. Directly northwest of the Washington Monument is Constitution Gardens, which includes a garden, park, pond, and a memorial to the signers of the United...
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  • signed in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, authorized a memorial in Constitution Gardens to both men and women who served in Vietnam. The design that was...
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    carried out in 1970. The land was then reclaimed and turned into Constitution Gardens, with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built near the former Munitions...
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    stood until the mid-1960s, and the last one was demolished in 1971. Constitution Gardens, the National Museum of American History, National Gallery of Art...
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    1984 and the Vietnam Women's Memorial in 1993. The memorial is in Constitution Gardens, adjacent to the National Mall and just northeast of the Lincoln...
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    The National Constitution Center is a non-profit institution that is devoted to the study of the Constitution of the United States. Located at the Independence...
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    to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes...
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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
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    Constitution Gardens, and the grounds of the Washington Monument. The relocated U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts are at Constitution Avenue NW and...
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    The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...
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  • standstill for two days when he drove a tractor into the pond in the Constitution Gardens area of the National Mall and claimed to have explosives. The standoff...
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    Two museums on the National Mall include sculpture gardens: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art. Archer Alexander...
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  • filming started in Washington, D.C., where shooting took place at Constitution Gardens. Filming in Las Vegas, Nevada was scheduled to begin on January 14...
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    between 3rd Street and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Constitution Gardens – east end, between Constitution Avenue and the Rainbow Pool Freedom Plaza – on Pennsylvania...
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    Equal Rights Amendment (category Unratified amendments to the United States Constitution)
    to the United States Constitution that would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It is not currently a part of the Constitution, though its ratification...
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  • located at the mouth of Tiber Creek, in the vicinity of today's Constitution Gardens. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ripps...
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    Kennedy administration, the White House Rose Garden was redesigned by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The Rose Garden borders the West Colonnade. Bordering the East...
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  • The Constitution Party, named the U.S. Taxpayers' Party until 1999, is an ultra-conservative political party in the United States that promotes a religiously...
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    The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at...
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  • States Navy Memorial. Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument Constitution Gardens Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, including Petersen House Franklin...
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    The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was adopted by the Great...
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    In 1939, singer Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington because she was African American. An open-air concert...
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    Anderson to perform before an integrated audience at the organization's Constitution Hall. At the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin...
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  • sited in Constitution Gardens East Tiffany Chung (b. 1969) For the Living (2023), Mixed-media earthwork Work sited in Constitution Gardens West, near...
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  • Memorial. On July 1, 1980, Congress authorized a site of three acres in Constitution Gardens near the Lincoln Memorial. In October of that year, VVMF announced...
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