Pocket US Constitution Becomes Best-Seller After Speech

Pocket US Constitution Becomes Best-Seller After Speech
Khizr Khan, father of fallen U.S. Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan holds up a copy of the Constitution of the United States as his wife listens during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Associated Press
7/31/2016
Updated:
7/31/2016

LOS ANGELES—A pocket version of the U.S. Constitution has become a best-seller on Amazon.com.

The 52-page pamphlet printed by the National Center for Constitutional Studies sells for $1 and was in the Top 10 best-selling books on Amazon on Saturday afternoon. The site produces an hourly list of its best sellers.

The Constitution emerged as a best-seller days after Muslim-American lawyer Khizr Khan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, flashed a pocket Constitution and offered to lend it to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The version Khan used at the convention did not appear to be the same as the one that became popular on Amazon.

A message sent to Amazon seeking sales details for the Constitution pamphlet was not immediately returned.

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