...between the free and independent States of America: PLAN OP A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. 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,...

...August 6, the Committee of Detail reported a draft of the Constitution which begins 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,...

...as reported by a committee of five delegates on August 6, 1787, read as follows: 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,...

...shows that the preamble was as follows when originally reported to the convention: "That 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,...

...Address of congress to the several states. 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,...