We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.

Míreanna comhchosúla

• Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia
  Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: (1777)
• Journal of the convention of South Carolina which ratified the Constitution of the United States, May 23, 1788
  Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: (1928)
• The journal of the Convention of North-Carolina
  Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: (1788)
• A new constitution for a new America
  de réir: MacDonald, William, 1863-1938
  Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: (1921)
• Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations united to the great American family. : Providence, Monday, May 31, 1790. Saturday night, at eleven o'clock, an express arrived in town from Newport ... Ratification of the Constitution of the United States, by the Convention of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. .
  Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: (1790)