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
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20818
Publisher: Printed by Dunlap & Claypoole.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Other titles: We, the people of the United States ...
Work titles: Constitution
Notes: "This is the official edition, printed in large type, single columns, by the Convention, for submission to Congress, with the resolutions, and letter, added."--Evans.

Title taken from opening lines of text.

Imprint from colophon. Dated on p. 5: Done in convention ... the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ...

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