[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 117th Congress]
[117th Congress]
[House Document 116-177]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 92-94]
[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.



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  Attest:                            William Jackson, Secretary.

   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 


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  \1\The first 10 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; 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; 
Connecticut, April 19, 1939.