 We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish,...  History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent - Page 292by George Bancroft - 1884Full view - About this book
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...New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and posterity. ARTICLE i. . The style of this government shall be the United States of America, and the... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 320 pages
...New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and posterity. ARTICLE I. The style of this government shall be the United States of America, and the government... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...began in these words: "We, the people of the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, &c. do ordain and establish the following Constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity." — Elliott's Debates, vol. 4, p. 116. The principle was here distinctly set forth, but as it might... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - Nullification - 1834 - 396 pages
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 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 708 pages
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 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
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 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
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...people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, &c. (reciting the names of the thirteen States) do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution...for the government of ourselves and our posterity." The 17th article of the plan was: — "New States, lawfully constituted or established within the limits... | |
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