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