[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 106th Congress]
[106th Congress]
[House Document 105-358]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 84-85]
[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.]


John Langdon,                        Nicholas Gilman.

                             New Hampshire.


Nathaniel Gorham,                    Rufus King.

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                             Massachusetts.


Wm. Saml. Johnson,                   Roger Sherman.

                              Connecticut.


Alexander Hamilton.

                                New York.


Wil: Livingston,                     Wm. Paterson,

David Brearley,                      Jona: Dayton.

                               New Jersey.


B Franklin,                          Thomas Mifflin,

RobT. Morris,             Geo. Clymer,

Thos. FitzSimons,                    Jared Ingersoll,

James Wilson,                        Gouv Morris.

                              Pennsylvania.


Geo. Read,                           Gunning Bedford jun,

John Dickinson,                      Richard Bassett.

Jaco Broom,

                                Delaware.


James McHenry,                       Dan of ST Thos. Jenifer.

Danl Carroll,

                                Maryland.


John Blair,                          James Madison Jr.

                                Virginia.


Wm. Blount,                          Rich'D. Dobbs Spaight.

Hu Williamson,

                             North Carolina.


J. Rutledge,                         Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,

Charles Pinckney,                    Pierce Butler.

                             South Carolina.


William Few,                         Abr Baldwin.

                                Georgia.



  Attest:                            William Jackson, Secretary.