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