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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
date
["[1787]"]
year
1787
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No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
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United States
M'Lean, John, -1789
Dunlap, John, 1747-1812
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915
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Boston Public Library
collections
Colonial and Revolutionary Boston Collection
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New York
North and Central America
United States
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Documents
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Autographs
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Text
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United States
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New York
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New York
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4 p. ; 43 cm.
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notes
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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[Printed by John McLean for John Dunlap]
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[New York]
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