Printing of the United States Constitution

[1] John Dunlap received the first draft of the Constitution from the Committee of Detail for printing as a seven-page broadside on August 4, 1787, and was turned around in two days for the Convention's members.

Copies of this first draft exist in the separately collected papers of the Convention, James Madison, and David Brearley.

Extant copies of this four-folio and penultimate draft of the Constitution rest in the papers of Madison and Brearley, as well as those of George Washington (Library of Congress), each with markings made over the next three days.

[5] In the final Constitution's printing, Dunlap & Claypoole produced 500 copies of a six-page broadside with Caslon small-pica type.

[5] Its sole typographical error mistakenly spelled out a number in Article Five but was corrected in subsequent reprints.