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I went hunting for the 14th Amendment, the document that could bar Trump from ballots

Come on an adventure inside the research facility holding the Civil War-era document that could bar former President Donald Trump from the White House.
The original documents are sensitive to both light and humidity.

The cursive strokes of iron gall ink on parchment sent my eyes on a roller coaster ride through American history — swoop, swish and a loop-de-loop.

As I read from the stretched animal hide, I blinked twice to recalibrate my brain, which is used to clean, crisp digital fonts — not the wispy script that was a few feet in front of me. So I took my time

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