The U.S. Consitution turns 210 today!?

I Find Karma (adam@milliways.cs.caltech.edu)
Wed, 17 Sep 1997 03:44:22 -0700 (PDT)


> Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the
> seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
> seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United
> States of America the twelfth.

sonofagun, you get a little bit o history everyday...
happy 210th birthday, U.S. Constitution...
and where was the rhode island delegate that day, sleeping in? -- adam

The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, 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...

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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html
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Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the
seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of
America the twelfth.

In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

G. Washington-Presidt. and deputy from Virginia

New Hampshire: John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman

Massachusetts: Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King

Connecticut: Wm: Saml. Johnson, Roger Sherman

New York: Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey: Wil: Livingston, David Brearly, Wm. Paterson, Jona: Dayton

Pennsylvania: B. Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt. Morris, Geo. Clymer,
Thos. FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris

Delaware: Geo: Read, Gunning Bedford jun, John Dickinson, Richard
Bassett, Jaco: Broom

Maryland: James McHenry, Dan of St Thos. Jenifer, Danl Carroll

Virginia: John Blair--, James Madison Jr.

North Carolina: Wm. Blount, Richd. Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson

South Carolina: J. Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles
Pinckney, Pierce Butler

Georgia: William Few, Abr Baldwin

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