We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
Summary
"The first draft of the report of the Committee of Five of the Federal Convention. Printed, for the use of members, in an edition of sixty copies, on one side of seven leaves, only"--Evans.
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Evans 20815
Ford, P.L. Pamphlets, 20
Journals of the Continental Congress, 588
LC copy annotated in pencil on leaf [1]: (1787, Aug.) Report of Committee of Detail. (Between Aug 1 and Aug 6).
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Formerly Const Conv Bside no. 21. qr03 08-16-90
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Date
01/01/1787
Contributors
United States.
United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)
Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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Library of Congress
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Public Domain