    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 108th Congress]
    [108th Congress]
    [House Document 107-284]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 86-88]
    [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.

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        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.

                                 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,

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                                    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.