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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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Aa 787 .P84 [Locked Case]
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- United States
- Standardized Title:
- Constitution
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutions--United States--Early works to 1800.
- Constitutions.
- Physical Description:
- 6 p. ; 38.7 x 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Printed by Dunlap & Claypoole, [1787].
- 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 ...
- Local Notes:
- Item had been deposited at LCP, former LCP call number: Am 1787 UniStaCon.
- [September 17, 1787 Original printing of final text for Congress]
- Cited in:
- Evans 20818.
- Ford 10.
- OCLC:
- 62317791
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted access: Locked Case.
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