We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America [electronic resource].

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America [electronic resource].

Constitution

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Dunlap and Claypoole], [1787]

4 p. ; fol..

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"The first issue of the Constitution as agreed."--Evans.

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Dated on p. 3: Done in Convention .. the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.

Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole by Evans.

Printed in two columns.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

Evans, C. American bibliography, 20817
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W13932

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

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