john dunlap had a great gig. he was the printer who did the engrossed or original copies of the declaration of the constitution and on the side he ran one of philadelphia's biggest and best read newspapers, it was called the pennsylvania packet. it sold for 4 pence, as you can see here, and what's so exciting about this document is that it's the first copy that we the people of the united states actually read and saw. so that's why some scholars believe that this copy is even more constitutionally significant than the one in the national archives, because after all, the constitution did not become the supreme law of the land when congress proposed it in independence hall. it took the ratification and special conventions to give it the weight of supreme law. in order to become ratified, there had to be a national debate, and citizens read and debated arguments like the federalist papers written by madison and hamilton that were published as pamphlets and gave justification for the constitution. there were opposing