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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 defense, 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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- William Jackson to John Quincy Adams · recipient: John Quincy Adams
- United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States.
- Timothy Pickering to John Lowell · recipient: John Lowell
- The Federalist No. 84
- Robert R. Livingston's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates
- Response to Elbridge Gerry's Objections by Rufus King and Nathaniel Gorham · recipient: Nathaniel Gorham
- Observations by [Luther Martin?]
- Journal Notes of the Virginia Ratification Convention Proceedings
- James Madison to Peter S. Duponceau · recipient: Peter S. Duponceau
- George Mason to Council of State
- Extract from James Madison's Will
- Draft Sketch of Constitution by Edmund Randolph
- Delaware Convention Proceedings: Maryland Journal
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to Matthew Ridley · recipient: Matthew Ridley
- Benjamin Rush to Timothy Pickering · recipient: Timothy Pickering
- Anecdote by George Bancroft
- Abraham Lansing to Abraham Yates · recipients: Abraham Yates, Abraham Yates, Jr.
- Abraham Baldwin in the United Sates Senate