Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

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Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

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Item Title

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.

United States.

Other Titles

Constitution

Created/Published

[Philadelphia : s.n., 1787]

Notes

"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.

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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).

Subjects

United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Related Names

United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)
Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Medium

7 leaves ; 41 cm.

Call Number

Const Conv no. 1a

Digital ID

( Copy 1 ) bdsdcc c01a1 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.c01a1
( Copy 2 ) bdsdcc c01a2 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.c01a2