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UNITED STATES, CONSTITUTION]. The Constitution of the United States. We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America [with the Ratification Act of the Connecticut Convention, 9 January 1788, at end]. [Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin? 1788]. Folio, 291 x 178mm. 8 pp., paginated [1]-8. Caption title on page [1], Preamble in large type on 8 lines, text of ratification resolutions and Connecticut's ratification on page 8. (Minor marginal stains, a few marginal tears neatly mended, other repairs at gutter margins, not affecting text) . There are apparently two variant settings: in this copy, the first line of the Preamble reads "in or-" rather than "in." Evans 21523; Bristol B6831 (variant); Sabin 15493. CONNECTICUT BECOMES THE FIFTH STATE TO RATIFY THE NEW CONSTITUTION. A rare printing of the Constitution, presumed to have been printed in Hartford, where the ratification convention convened and on January 9, 1788 voted by a three-to-one margin to ratify the new compact of government. As attested in the ratification act annexed to the text, "the foregoing Ratification was agreed to, and signed as above, by 128 and dissented to, by 40 Delegates...which is a Majority of 88." Connecticut was not among the states which ratified subject to the addition of a Bill of Rights (as did Massachusetts, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New York and Virginia). In fact, Connecticut did not ratify the first 10 amendments to the Constitution until 1939, the Sesquicentennial of the Constitution. Copies are recorded at Yale, Connecticut Historical Society, Syracuse University Library, New York Public Library and in a New York private collection.