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[Printed version of the United States Constitution] Resolve Book of the Office of Foreign Affairs

9/28/1787

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Th[e] volume [in which this document is bound] consists mainly of copies of orders and resolutions by the Confederation Congress with a few by the Senate of the First Federal Congress. Included are printed copies of "An Ordinance for the Regulation of Indian Affairs," 1786; "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio," 1787; the Constitution [images shown here]; and the acts establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of State.

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On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention completed their work and sent a signed parchment copy of the Constitution—along with hundreds of copies printed by John Dunlap and David Claypoole—to the Articles of Confederation Congress then meeting in New York. After further debate, the Confederation Congress sent the Constitution to the state legislatures, who would distribute them to ratifying conventions. The printed version shown here was printed on September 29, 1787, based on the type already set by the New York newspaper the Independent Journal. It was then placed in the Resolve Book of the Office for Foreign Affairs.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention.
National Archives Identifier: 2316270
Full Citation: [Printed version of the United States Constitution] Resolve Book of the Office of Foreign Affairs; 9/28/1787; Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention, Record Group 360. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/[printed-version-of-the-united-states-constitution]-resolve-book-of-the-office-of-foreign-affairs, August 9, 2022]
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