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        "Official edition of the United States Constitution printed in New York by John McLean for John Dunlap and sent by Congress to the states for ratification.",
        "Title from first line of text.",
        "Place of imprint, printer, publisher, and date from Rapport, Leonard. \"Printing the constitution: the convention and newspaper imprints, August-November 1787.\" Prologue (vol. 2, no. 2: fall, 1970) p. 69-90. See also: Library of Congress. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (Washington, D.C: GPO, 1936) vol. 23, p. 760, no. 593.",
        "Evans ascribes printing to Dunlap and Claypoole."
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