There are only 14 known surviving original copies of the U.S. Constitution. Each of the 13 original states received two copies in 1787, but most were lost or destroyed. There are only two privately held original copies, in 2021 one of these sold for $43 million.

Confederate states may have purposefully destroyed their copies during the Civil War, although most copies from Union states did not fare better. For example, New York’s copy was destroyed in a 1911 fire.  

In The Hesperus Prophecy, Georgia’s copy hangs in the Room of the Honored’s bathroom, instead of being set ablaze during the Civil War. Hopefully the Clypeate doesn’t run out of toilet paper, or there will be one less copy.