. In 2000, Lyn and Norman Lear purchased this rare, original copy with the goal of bringing "the people's document" directly to the American people. Launched on July 4, 2001, the DOI Road Trip was founded to tour the nation's birth certificate and a multimedia exhibit across the United States, to engage and energize all Americans, particularly young people, to participate in civic activism and to vote.
This document remains as the only touring copy of the Declaration of Independence.