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Book/Printed Material 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.

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Title

  • 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.

Names

  • United States.
  • American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Philadelphia] : (Printed by Dunlap & Claypoole), [1787]

Headings

  • -  Constitutions--United States--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Caption title.
  • -  Imprint from colophon.
  • -  Shipton & Mooney note "no copy located." This printing of the Constitution is described in Prologue, the Journal of the National Archives (Fall, 1970), p. 82. There it is suggested that this printing followed immediately the printing in Dunlap and Claypoole's Pennsylvania Packet on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1787.
  • -  Shipton & Mooney 45178
  • -  LC copy damaged with some loss of text.

Medium

  • [4] p. ; 47 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF4525
  • JK14 1787m

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 48034353

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

United States, and American Imprint Collection. 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. [Philadelphia: Printed by Dunlap & Claypoole, 1787] Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/48034353/.

APA citation style:

United States & American Imprint Collection. (1787) 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. [Philadelphia: Printed by Dunlap & Claypoole] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/48034353/.

MLA citation style:

United States, and American Imprint Collection. 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. [Philadelphia: Printed by Dunlap & Claypoole, 1787] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/48034353/>.