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United States Constitution. RatificationThe Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser. Tuesday, July 1, 1788. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1788 Folio (470 x 295 mm). 4 pages on 1 sheet, type in 4 columns, woodcut vignettes, printer's ornaments; old horizontal fold, long closed tear along that fold and along the folio fold, causing the lower half of the first leaf to be almost cleanly detached but still holding, a few other short closed marginal tears and chips. The third page reports the news of Virginia's ratification of the Constitution, which occurred the week prior. Virginia was the tenth state to ratify, following New Hampshire and the Constitution's coming into force. "We the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected, in pursuance of a recommendation of the general assembly, and now met in Convention, having fully and fairly investigated and discussed the proceedings of the Federal Convention, and being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation will enable us to decide thereon, DO, in the name and on behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will ... We the said delegates in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do by these presents assent to and ratify the constitution, recommended on the 17th day of September, 1787, by the Federal Convention for the government of the United States ..."