[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 Printing 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.