We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to 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 Consitution for the United States of America

Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

[Philadelphia]

1787
[1787]

4 leaves

Caption title. William Livingston’s copy of the second draft of the United States Constitution, with his manuscript annotations showing changes that appear in the final version. William Livingston was Governor of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790. He joined the New Jersey Delegation to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and was one of the signers of the Constitution.

United States. Constitution

United States--Politics and government--1783-1789
United States--History--1783-1815

drafts (documents)

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