Edmund Randolph draft of the United States Constitution
Item
- Title
- Edmund Randolph draft of the United States Constitution
- Description
- “The first draft of The Report of the Committee of Five of the Federal Convention. Printed for the use of members in an edition of sixty (60) copies, on one side of seven leaves only.” (Evans 20816) This is the first printed draft of the Constitution—printed by Dunlap and Claypoole. Randolph was a delegate to the Convention from Virginia. Like the two manuscript drafts, this printed draft lists all the states in the first line. However, it states “The stile of the government shall be ‘The United States of America.’”
- Identifier
- 1390
- Type
- text
- Creator
- Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813
- Date Created
- 1787-09-01 - 1787-09-30
- Format
- typescript
- Is Part Of
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania Treasures collection
- Spatial Coverage
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Subject
- Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813 | Constitution of the United States
- Extent
- 8 pages
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- This item is made available online for non-commercial, educational, and research uses. For more information, please contact Rights and Reproductions as rnr@hsp.org. Please note that rights assessment and appropriate use of materials is the responsibility of the person using this material.
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