    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 82-84]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                  ARTICLE VII.

    Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the

    Sec. 207. Ratification of the Constitution.

      The  Ratification
    of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the
    Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the
    Same.

        Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand

        seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United

        States of America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto

        subscribed our Names,

                                         Go WASHINGTON--Presidt.

                                                   and Deputy from Virginia.

        [Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

                                 New Hampshire.

                                 Massachusetts.

                                  Connecticut.

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                                    New York.

                                   New Jersey.

                                  Pennsylvania.

                                    Delaware.

                                    Maryland.

                                    Virginia.

                                 North Carolina.

                                 South Carolina.

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                                    Georgia.

       articles in addition to, and amendment of, the constitution of the

      united states of america, proposed by congress, and ratified by the

          several states pursuant to the fifth article of the original

                               constitutiona

      a The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States
    were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First
    Congress on September 25, 1789 (this date and the date succeeding
    amendments were proposed is the date of final Congressional action--
    signature by the presiding officer of the Senate--as is shown in the
    Senate Journals). They were ratified by the following States, on the
    dates shown, and the notifications by the governors thereof of
    ratification were communicated by the President to Congress: New Jersey,
    November 20, 1789; Maryland, December 19, 1789; North Carolina, December
    22, 1789; South Carolina, January 19, 1790; New Hampshire, January 25,
    1790; Delaware, January 28, 1790; New York, February 27, 1790;
    Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790; Rhode Island, June 7, 1790; Vermont,
    November 3, 1791; and Virginia, December 15, 1791. Ratification was
    completed on December 15, 1791. The amendments were subsequently
    ratified by Massachusetts, March 2, 1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; and
    Connecticut, April 19, 1939.