January 14, 2009

Court hears Declaration arguments  01/14/09 12:01 AM

The Supreme Court of Virginia yesterday heard arguments in Maine’s last chance to obtain a 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence it says belongs to the town of Wiscasset. “Public documents belong to the government, they don’t belong to people,“ Thomas A. Knowlton, a Maine assistant attorney general, told the Virginia justices yesterday. He said the print belongs to the town.

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