United States ConstitutionThe Constitution of the United States. We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union … do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. [Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin?, January 1788] Folio (317 x 210 mm, uncut). 8 pages, caption title at top of first page, preamble set in larger type, explanatory shoulder-notes throughout; some abrasion and tiny loss at central horizontal fold touching a few letters, lightly browned and stained, a few short marginal tears, some corners turned or lost, but a completely untrimmed copy with very large margins. Early stab-sewing, final two leaves loose. Half maroon morocco slipcase, chemise. The official Connecticut printing of the Constitution, with the state's ratification. An uncommon edition of the Constitution, printed to commemorate Connecticut's ratification on 9 January 1788. Connecticut was the fifth state to ratify the Constitution, putting the document more than halfway to becoming the law of the land. The final text of this pamphlet appears above the name of Matthew Griswold, president of Connecticut's ratifying convention, and notes, "The foregoing Ratification was agreed to, and signed as above, by One Hundred and Twenty-Eight, and dissented to by Forty Delegates in Convention, which is a Majority of Eighty-Eight." Connecticut's ratification—unlike those of Massachusetts, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, and Virginia— was not subject to the addition of a Bill of Rights. Indeed, Connecticut did not ratify the first ten amendments to the Constitution for more than a hundred and fifty years, finally doing so in 1939. REFERENCEESTC W14238; Evans 21523Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
United States ConstitutionThe Constitution of the United States. We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union … do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. [Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin?, January 1788] Folio (317 x 210 mm, uncut). 8 pages, caption title at top of first page, preamble set in larger type, explanatory shoulder-notes throughout; some abrasion and tiny loss at central horizontal fold touching a few letters, lightly browned and stained, a few short marginal tears, some corners turned or lost, but a completely untrimmed copy with very large margins. Early stab-sewing, final two leaves loose. Half maroon morocco slipcase, chemise. The official Connecticut printing of the Constitution, with the state's ratification. An uncommon edition of the Constitution, printed to commemorate Connecticut's ratification on 9 January 1788. Connecticut was the fifth state to ratify the Constitution, putting the document more than halfway to becoming the law of the land. The final text of this pamphlet appears above the name of Matthew Griswold, president of Connecticut's ratifying convention, and notes, "The foregoing Ratification was agreed to, and signed as above, by One Hundred and Twenty-Eight, and dissented to by Forty Delegates in Convention, which is a Majority of Eighty-Eight." Connecticut's ratification—unlike those of Massachusetts, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, and Virginia— was not subject to the addition of a Bill of Rights. Indeed, Connecticut did not ratify the first ten amendments to the Constitution for more than a hundred and fifty years, finally doing so in 1939. REFERENCEESTC W14238; Evans 21523Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
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