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

The Constitution of the United States, followed by resolves of the Constitutional Convention and a letter from George Washington to the Continental Congress, Sept. 17, 1787, p. [3].
Title taken from opening lines of text.
Imprint from colophon. Dated on p. [3]: Done in Convention ... the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
Printed in two columns.
Marginal notes possibly in autograph of John Mason.