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

We the people of the United States ...

[Philadelphia : Printed by Dunlap and Claypoole, 1787]

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

English

4p. ; 2⁰.

"The first issue of the Constitution as agreed."--Evans.
Title taken from opening lines of text.
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.

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Evans, 20817
English Short Title Catalog, W13932.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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