We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to 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.

Format:

Book

Government document

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20816.

Standardized Title:

Constitution

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 leaves)

Other Title:

We, the people of the United States ...

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1787]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"The second draft of the Constitution, printed, for use of members, on one side of four leaves, only."--Evans.

Title taken from opening lines of text.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 20816).

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Evans 20816

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