w e who have lived through the recent fanfare surround-ing the bicenten- nial of America's Bill of Rights may
find it odd that the centennial of 1891 passed with virtually no ceremony and little, if any, recognition. Newspapers and periodicals, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, made no mention of the anniversary.
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Even the Congressional Record failed to ob- serve the date. Perhaps this lack of atten- tion by 19th-century Americans under- scores the greater...