What’s up with this poster?

 It’s a visual representation of one of our favorite documents: Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union. This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but it’s profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. We wanted a classroom poster that could serve as a good conversation starter and springboard into the document!

Near the start of his presidency, Lincoln was thinking about the relationship between the Constitution and the Declaration. Reflecting on a passage from Proverbs that says “a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver,” he found an analogy for how to understand these two documents. The principles within the Declaration were the words fitly spoken—an apple of gold. The Constitution was the frame of silver around the golden apples.

He clearly believed the Constitution is important enough to wage a war to preserve, but he wanted to remember that it’s a silver frame around the more important document from our Founding. It is there to “adorn and preserve” the principles within the Declaration, and that makes it worthy of saving.

36″ x 24″ poster. 1 for $10 or 3 for $15. Free ground shipping included. Please email [email protected] for quantity pricing.