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 AmericaUnited States, creator[1787]engBEIN 787 Un3 +1787d: Manuscript note on page 1: Form of government."This is the official edition, printed in large type, single columns, by the Convention, for submission to Congress, with the resolutions, and letter, added"--Evans.Title from opening lines of text.Imprint from colophon. Dated on page 5: Done in convention ... the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ...