...Constitution. Its preamble sets forth that — "We, the people of the States of, etc., etc., do ordaiu, declare and establish the following Constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity." — (735.) Here nothing is said of any particular objects for which the government is to be established....

...&c.) Congress passed a resolution, on the 23d day of November, 1777, recommending to the Legislatures of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode...Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, to appoint commissioners, to convene at New Haven, in...

...for that purpose, reported the first draft of a constitution. The preamble was in these words : ' We, the people of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...for the government of ourselves and our posterity.' (1 Elliot's Debates, 255.) On the very next day this preamble was unanimously adopted ; and the reader...

...The original preamble ran in different terms, viz. : "We, the People of the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,...following Constitution for the government of ourselves (ie the people of the said States) and our posterity." Here, certainly, we have nothing about the People,...

...committee of detail, as follows — a printed copy being at the same time furnished to each member : ordain, declare, and establish, the following Constitution...government of ourselves and our posterity : — ARTICLE L — The style of the government shall be, "The United States of America." ART. II. — The government...

...Congress to the States. December 17th, 1781. The United States in Congress assembled, to the legislatures 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....

...submitted by Mr. Charles Pinckney : " We the people OF THE STATES of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, &c., do ordain, declare and establish the following Constitution,...for the government of ourselves and our posterity." It is worthy of remark that on the questions, separately taken, of agreeing to this preamble, it passed...

...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...

...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...

...Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,...for the government of ourselves and our posterity." The committee of style and arrangement gave it the present form. No reason seems to have been assigned...