On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document and send it to the states for ratification.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.