...of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every state. And ichereas, it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to...represent, and that the union shall be perpetual. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in congress. Done at Philadelphia in the state of...

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