We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure 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...

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure 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... United States. Carter, John, 1745-1814, printer. United States. Constitutional Convention (1787) Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) DLC text Broadsides Rhode Island Providence 1787. rbgenr Broadsheet format (Printing) Rhode Island Providence 1787. rbpri Providence : Printed by John Carter, [1787] eng Text of the Constitution as ratified by the Constitutional Convention on Sept. 17, 1787. Date of publication from Evans. Text in three columns. LC copy annotated at top of p. [2]: Town-clerk of East-Greenwich. Evans Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, ESTC Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. United States Providence. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.c0801 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.c0802